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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS Enterprise Suite
Categories Explorer for Development
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 7, 2022

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Option to generate ALTER DDL and save them in z/OS PDS member

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Hi,

I have imported a database from IMS Catalog to my local project in IMS Explorer. I have made some changes to it. To generate the ALTER DDL statements, I have to use "Submit changes to IMS" to generate ALTER DDL statements for the changes I have made. But I don't see an option to send and save these statements in z/OS PDS member, so that I can submit it later thru a batch utility in my change window.

It would be nice to have an option to generate ALTER DDL and then save in z/OS PDS member for later usage.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 3, 2022
    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 Idea IMSES-I-99 is because after further research, we found an alternative solution which is available today.

    When you generate ALTER DDL there is a panel that displays the read-only text of the DDL statement. That text can be copied and pasted into a PDS member on the host.

    If you have any further question, please let us know.

    Thank you for your continue support with IMS.
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com

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