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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS System Services
Categories Commands
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 8, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Region bounce commands

Provide commands to bounce MPRs, including bouncing MPRs based on job name, class, transactions that run in that class or programs used by transactions in that class.

If there are multiple MPRs, please provide a mechanism to perform rolling bounces so that there is no disruption in service of the particular class in question. Optionally allow the user to immediately bounce all MPRs in question without the time required by a smooth rolling bounce, such as might be desired in a test environment where service interruptions are not a concern.

Please allow wildcarding, and please provide RACF profiles to protect each piece of that functionality.

Long term, it would be very nice to be able to tell IMS how many regions should be up and servicing a particular class.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 22, 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 reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting RFE ID 91120 is because we do not have enough customer interest at this point in time. 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
    |     Sep 15, 2016

    While the new START(REFRESH) functionality will indeed handle many cases where a developer is currently requesting bounces of their MPP regions, it doesn't address the pre-init and pre-load programs that drive many other cases where MPPs are being bounced today.

    Additionally, we also bounce our MPPs on a nightly basis to make it easier to find job output content in our JES spool offload system (EOS/WSF2).

    So while it is a great start to eliminating the need to bounce MPPs, we still have use cases that are not yet addressed.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 13, 2016

    Hello Jonathan,

    We would like some clarification on the RFE.  IMS V14 added support of UPD PGM START(REFRESH) command that supports programs running in PWFI MPP|JMP regions or scheduled by WFI=Y transactions and also supports message driven BMP and JBP regions. The program name can be a wildcard name.

    Please let us know if the UPDATE PGM START(REFRESH) support satisfies the problem described in the RFE.

    Thanks and regards,
    Anu Vakkalagadda
    IMS Development

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