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IMS Database Manager

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Allow storage of 88-Level Metadata in IMS Catalog

We are attempting to use the IMS Catalog to replace the functionality of our data dictionary. With the current database structure, we would be able to implement almost all of the needed functions except for keeping track of our 88-levels for field...
about 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

FPBP64M does not take effect to current working (scheduling) applications

We found that FPBP64M potential system outage risk like a real storage shortage, the FPBP64M current design is not able to protect the real storage shortage because current applications can expand the FPBP64 pool unlimitedly beyond the value of FP...
about 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Setting DB2 Client Information from an IMS application

Provide an API for IMS applications to make it possible to provide client information to DB2. This requires modification to IMS ESAF and DB2 IMS Attachment API to actually pass client info. This would require a change to the IMS ESAF and DB2 Signo...
about 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Support

Support use of FlashCopy to make database copies/backups when the database is on a mirrored volume.
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

Allow DBRC=N for Restoring HALDB

DBRC=Y is good only when you need to perform Disaster Recovery to production region whereby it will ensure the integrity of the HALDB image copies being restored. However, most of the time DBA is performing restoration from their past HALDB backup...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS DB/Area Quiesce DBRC Enhancement

Database/Area Quiesce records that a quiesce has taken place by setting a flag in the DBRC ALLOC record. However this only applies if the database/area was actually open for update on an IMS subsystem at the time of the quiesce - otherwise there i...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Catalog IMS - JCL/BMP/PSB

We would like to have one additional information in the IMS catalog: the link between the name of JCLLIB, the JCL jobname and the PSB used by the BMP.
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

IDAA support for IMS

Please provide similar function to IDAA for IMS. We need both functions like following. a) Transform IMS hierarchal data to relational data format and load it into IDAA appliance.b) When SQLs come into IMS DB, then route these SQLs to IDAA applian...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

DEDB DBFUMIN0 DB utility and ACBLIB

DBFUMIN0 requires the ACBLIB library. During IMS version migration in an IMSPLEX environnement, the utility fails because it ran in IMS V12 and ACBLIB was still in V11. DBFUMIN0 should be able to run with the DBDLIB to be not release dependant.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

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