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Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
10 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
7 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

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