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IMS Database Manager

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FENCE function only for user defined DBs

We plan to use GDPS/Active-Active for next disaster recovery system. We use IMS Fast Path function for current system so we plan to use IIDR(IBM InfoSphere Data Replication) for IMS as a replication software.We need FENCE function to prevent unexp...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

AddBatch SQL support for Inserts

Customer measurements show that INSERT SQL statements are much slower than DLI Path Calls executed with the Universal Drivers. Customer likes to have addBatch support for speeding up SQL Inserts.
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Simplification ACBSHR= parameter setting

Currently, we can specify ACBSHR= parameter in three places. - DFSCGxxx - DFSDFxxx COMMON SERVICE LAYER section - DFSDFxxx FAST PATH sectionThis is a very confusing situation. We want to specify this parameter in one place.
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Validate input to DFSEIPB0

In this case, a COBOL program made a call and passed garbage as the input parameter list. DFSEIPB0 happily used this and issued a GETMAIN for close to 16M of below the line storage which is impossible to satisfy and resulted in an ABEND80A. With n...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Add EXTERALNAME to all IVP databases to create better catalog entries

Add the EXTERNALNAME keyword to all the IVP databases so they have good application names for the COBOL SQL feature of IMS v13
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS CATALOG: ACB populate utility should generate generic PCBNAMEs

The initial load into the IMS CATALOG by ACB populate utility should create generic PCBNAMEs for those PSBS don't have any.Otherwise these PSBs (without label stmt and without any PCBNAMEs for their PCB stmt) can't simply be used and explored by E...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Quiesce command with deallocate option for DB ALTER without an outage

IMS API or Command support is needed as to quiesce database access within IMS and to activate database metadata changes. IMS Tools reorganization utility will invoke it to perform the online reorganization and activate a database change without a ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS

We are running online image copy using DFSUICC0 utilitySometimes we can have up to 50 image copy jobs running in parallelWhen too many jobs are running in parallel, we get rid of CSA because DFSUICC0 is running in 24 bit mode Would it be possible ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

IDAA Incremental COPY support for IMS

Add additional functionality to RFE Request ID 46246,"IDAA supprt for IMS". In 46246, new function which transform and load IMS data into IDAA appliance is requested.By this method, data latency is dependent on execution of load interval. In order...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS auto-resume connection at warm start

- new feature:IMS automatically reconnects an IMS-DB2 connection regardless of the latest connection status at IMS shutdown, if introdiced and specified a new parameter like "FORCERECONNECT=YES".- present work:If IMS-DB2 connection was not active ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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