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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS System Services
Categories General System
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2015

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PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^T

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Submitted by: Angela Labate
Submitters Company: RBC Financial Group

PUBLIC
Requirement Number and Title: PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^T
Homework Assigned: No
Requirement Category: Core Technology
Current Status:
Closed Status:
Session:
Requirement Value Category: Continuous Availability / Continuous Operations
Product Affected: DB2IMS
Problem Description: Today when a DB2 subsystem abends IMS has to wait for all threads (including BMPs) to be completed before reconnecting to the restarted DB2. During a production situation the customer had such a subsystem outage for over 20 minutes in their IMS production environment.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 19, 2018

    Hi Angela Labate,

    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 ID 75757 is because given our current priorities we cannot in good faith get to this within 18 months. You are welcome to resubmit this RFE at a later date and we will reconsider.

    Thank you.
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 25, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Information management
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS System Services
    Component - General System
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

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