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IMS Database Manager

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OLR for PSINDEX

The OLR function should be available for PSINDEX DBs and should include the healing of any broken pointers as part of the OLR process.
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Increase the Maximum Size of the IRLM Lock Entries from Its Current Maximum of 1024 MB lock entries.

Currently we have a large number of false contentions within our IMS data sharing group, and we have increased the LTE value to 256 which causes us to reach the Maximum size of 1024mb.(256 * 4 Byte Entry = 1024mb) We need to be able to increase th...
17 days ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
25 days ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Under review

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Estudente

Es trabajo de universidad
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

DFS3CATQ API Open call with the DEFINITION=CONCAT

We at BMC are utilizing the DFS3CATQ API Open call with the DEFINITION=BOTH parameter that allows for requesting IMS control blocks from either STAGING or ACTIVE IMS Directories. We have multiple scenarios in our products code base where it is nec...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DFS3CATQ API with CONTCAT option

This is a curious case with the DFS3CATQ API that exists today when making separate calls to PENDING versus CURRENT IMS directories. I believe this error would not occur if we have the CONCAT option listed below. In this case we have HIDAM DBD tha...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

User Exits During DDL processing

During processing for a DEDB database member, a user exit will be needed to validate the vendor data in the catalog, and place it into an extension to Directory member. The exit should be able to add related SHISAM database(s) to the list of datab...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration