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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS Database Manager
Categories General DB
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

prevention of IMS archive RC=08 after two SWITCH commands was issued almost at the same time

* System *
IMS V13.1

* Problem detail *

Two OLDS switch commands were submitted almost at the same time.
One is by IMS due to OLDS full, and the other is by user.

OLDS04
　↓SWITCH by IMS-->archive job1 was created
OLDS03:empty
　↓SWITCH by USER-->archive job2 was created
OLDS 01

After these commands, archive jobs were created automatically.
The archive objects in each jobs are;
job1: OLDS04
job2: OLDS04 -- because archive job of OLDS04 hadn't started, and OLDS03 was empty.
In this result, first job ended normally, and 2nd job ended RC=08 because OLDS04 has been archived.

This RC=08 has no impact in IMS log archiving because all OLDS logs are archived, but it has impact in customer's operation, so he wants to bypass if possible.
I can't come up with how to avoid RC=08 by changing JCL because archive job is generated automatically.
So we make a request to add a mechanism to avoid our RC=08 to IMS.

About the problem detail please see the following PMR, too.
- PMR 61605,672,760

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 24, 2018

    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. We are rejecting RFE 92295 because we have not had interest from other customers for this enhancement and secondly this enhancement is not strategic for us.

    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

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