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Status Under review
Categories Commands
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 1, 2024

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS.

However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command.

IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to allow update tran start and update tran stop without also allowing update tran set, IMS is passed command verb followed by keyword and nothing further.

Adding a global option for start, stop and pstop transaction commands would provide this capability without allowing the modifying of transaction definitions. This would benefit application availability without compromising security.

Idea priority High