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IMS System Services

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USEREXIT TYPE(IMSMON)

An IMSMON type user exit is not notified of termination when it is deleted by IMS as the result of a REFRESH USEREXIT command. This occurs if it was removed from a list of exits defined in the same USEREXIT definition. For example if XXX was remov...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

DDL and ACBGEN equivalent BLDPSB=YES

Using ACBGEN, if we want to make segment level change such as key length change, we use BUILD DBD=xxxxxxxx,BLDPSB=YES. This builds DBD and all the PSBs that use the DBD that we want to change. With DDL, I understand that we can use ALTER to make s...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Improve function for compress of IMS type99 log using H/W component instead of MVS service

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS for next disaster recovery system. It needs new IMS type99 log records for data replication at source system.The source system's CPU usage was increased 20 percents by adding type99 log. We wo...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Command to display Regions with PWFI=N

Please provide an IMS command to easily list all regions/MPRs that are running based on PWFI=N or PWFI=Y.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to provide output area for DFSGVRM call

The DFSGVRM macro gives us a way to get the real IMS level. We are having issues with the FUNC=REL (addressability; our code and way it's written) using MVS STORAGE macro and having inline DC statements. DFSGVRM FUNC=CALL requires caller to alloca...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

IMS IVP Dialog - Scratch-Steps should end with RC=00

IEF403I IV3C101J - STARTED - TIME= -JOBNAME STEPNAME PROCSTEP RC -IV3C101J SCRATCH 08 -IV3C101J ALLOCATE 00 IEF404I IV3C101J - ENDED - TIME=09 Der Scratch erfolgt über IDCAMS in der Beschreibung steht das RC=00 und RC=08 in Ordnung sind, warum nic...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Not under consideration

ICH408I in the SPOC job instead of in the IMSOM started task

Security exceptions for SPOC should appear as close to the action that caused the exception as possible. For example, a batch job with PGM=CSLUSPOC should include the ICH408I message in the batch job.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

Customer would need the CPU Time spent for DLI activity to be separately accounted

Customer would need to have separately accounted in TYPE56FA TLS Accounting Log Record the CPU Time spent for DL/I activity.Currently TPEXTIME field contains the cumulative CPU Time spent for the comprehensive Transaction processing.For a Customer...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Resolve huge ECSA usage problem caused by DMHR

Our customer is now designing new account system and they caused ECSA shortage by plenty of DMHRs.This main contributing factor is BMP batch a lot of insert calls toward one area.When initial create they needs to insert 800 million root segments t...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

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