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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 11, 2016

Improve OM audit logstream examples

Improve the documentation and IVP sample definition of the OM audit logstream:

Include the retention period and auto-delete values, as well as a discussion about cleanup and link to the sample that shows printing out the data for archiving.

Also spell out the procedure to get out of the following scenarios:
- dataloss due to full logstream or structure
- what to do when the logstream or coupling facility structure is in a bad state (like required when some of the backing datasets had been deleted by SMS, etc.) without having a plex-wide OM and/or IMS outage, potentially including how to re-init the logstream while it is allocated, etc.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 5, 2019

    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 further reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting RFE ID 85344 is because of the priority and low customer interest that we were not able to get to it at this time.

    If there is any further question, feel free to contact us at any time.

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

  • Guest
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    Apr 22, 2018

    Hi Jonathan Eosze,

    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.

    After reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, our decision is to add this item to our backlog and resolve this item as a documentation update. Items in our backlog are expected to be delivered within the next 18 months. We reserve the right to re-prioritize our backlog items as new requests come in. This helps ensure that we are constantly focused on providing the best value to all of our clients. Thank you for your continuous support and interest in the IMS product.

    Have a great day!
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com