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Status Not under consideration
Categories Fast Path
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 8, 2016

DEDB initialzation with DBD defintion in case of no SDEP

With PMR 12291, IBM PMR asks us why we allocate 37 times oversize
compare to the necessary size for the reloaded ADS and also calculates
the exact required size x'DD388000' for this DEDB. Then even the
customer specifies unreasonable size, IMS DEDB initialization utility
knows this DEDB has no SDEP definition and know the required size. The
initialization utility should stop and release the space after
completing initialization with required space by DBD definition and
does not need to initialize the remain all spaces with SDEP segments if DBD has no SDEP definition.

Thanks
Brian

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jun 10, 2019

    Hi,
    Thank you for your interest in keeping IMS a vital and successful product. Software development has continuously evolved during IMS's lifetime, and so has IMS itself. We have kept pace with, adopted, and implemented many industry standard best practices within our organization, including Continuous Delivery, Design Thinking, and Agile.

    When choosing new features to add from the list of requirements in our backlog, we assess which will bring the most value to as many clients as possible and prioritize those.

    At this time, after reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting RFE 96981 is we have not had many clients ask for this enhancement. There doesn’t seem to be much interest from other clients. We would rather invest in high priority items that bring the most value to many clients.

    We appreciate your input to IMS, and we hope that you will continue to submit ideas for improvements as customer feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of IMS.

    Thank you.
    Sincerely,
    Deepak Kohli - deepakk@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Apr 29, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Analytics Platform
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS Database Manager
    Component - Fast Path
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Other

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Analytics Platform
    Product family - IMS Tools
    Product - IMS Fast Path Solution Pack
    Component - Fast Path Basic Utilities
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Other