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Diagnostic Utilities

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IMS Sysprog

IRLM deadlock report does not include a Unit of work (UOW)or Unit of recovery (UOR) token for the transactions involved in the deadlock.Application programmers often request for input messages of the transaction when investigating the deadlocks. B...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Externalize BPE TTE and TTVE

In IMS V13, IBM is providing macro HWSUSTAT, which has DSECTs HWSUSTAT and HWSLRCTR. From what I understand these DSECTs document the variable entry variable section of the HWS RCTR BPE external trace records (based on BPETRFM0 output). These DSEC...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 3 Not under consideration

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about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 0 Not under consideration

This is a test RFE

This is a test RFE.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 0 Not under consideration

RAS - Tracing ICAL data in the '6701' log record

DFSDLA30 produces very nice LA3A and LA3B trace records for DC calls. But ICAL does no go through there - it goes through DFSDLA40 which produces no trace records.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration

Change IMS DFSAAMPR IPCS log record extract function for unqualified dataset names on the entry panel

While testing the new DFSAAMPR (IPCS dump formatter function) for V11 I got a RACF error due trying to allocate an invalidly named dataset. The name being generated by DFSEGDSR/DFSEWDSN was fully qualified in even though I didn't enclose it in apo...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration

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