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Status Not under consideration
Categories General TM
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 20, 2022

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.
This is the correct thing to do.
But there is no indication that IMS did this call.
There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. There are no error messages.
Field DLRROLB in DFSDACCT is not incremented.
This makes it difficult to analyze some failure scenarios.
We would like to see an IMS log record generated to record this internal ROLB.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Apr 22, 2022
    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 153809 / Idea IMSTM-I-97 is because it is not our product direction to provide this function. We have diagnostics in place already for the reported issue and create another log record would impose additional overhead based on our analysis.

    If you have any further question, please let us know.

    Thank you for your continue support with IMS.
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com