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IMS Database Manager

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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.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Estudente

Es trabajo de universidad
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 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 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 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 7 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...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 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...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Run OLR through job batch

It would be useful to have the possibility to run OLR directly by job batch. The job has to be active during the whole reorganization.
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 3 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 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Invalidate GUR cache / update SQL metadata

IMS caches DBD and PSB metadata for IMS applications and JDBC based tools using SQL access to IMS databases in the so called GUR cache. There are situations in which an invalidation of this cache would be helpful like situations in which DBD metad...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

Fetching Vendor data from Directory

Vendor data that gets stored in Directory needs to be read by vendor batch utilities (PFX utilities). We need mechanism in DFS3CATQ i.e. if requested it should return the vendor data may be ignore the other meta data both from active as well stagi...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration