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Status Future consideration
Workspace IMS System Services
Categories Common Service Layer
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 5, 2024

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Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA.

Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting programs across an IMSPLEX without concerning that all members of the IMSPLEX are not available. Currently if a stop or start command is issued while an IMS is down it never receives that command.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Jacob Hansen
    Reply
    |     Aug 21, 2024

    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 are evaluating this item as part of our future roadmap. However, we don’t feel we can deliver it within the next 18-24 months which is the goal we have set for RFE deliverables as part of our IMS Gold program.

    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.

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