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System Management

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Remove RSR feature without stop IMS

Customer migrated from RSR solution to XRC solution for disaster recovery site. But, if we need to remove XRC function in active site, the 'DELETE.GSG' command need to offline all IMS shared the RECON dataset. Customer SYSPLEX env. is rolling main...
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Delivered

IMS Repository support for automatic export

Automatic export to a repository is not supported. We are requesting that IMS Repository provides automatic export capability currently available with DRD. We are dependent on the automatic export function at system checkpoint to trigger export fo...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 4 Delivered

ACBLIB member OLC for DBD change

We expect the ACBLIB member online change (OLC) succeeds for a single DBD re-generated with the BLDPSB=NO option. Currently OLC requires one or more related PSBs in the staging ACBLIB.
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 30 Delivered

Allow a Global Transaction to be spread across multiple IMS Connect and IMS Control region on different LPAR.

Currently a distributed two-phase commit global transaction that involves IMS Connect has the restriction that IMS Connect and IMS have to be on the same LPAR. To clarify this restriction, IMS Connect and the IMS that receives the input msg must b...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 5 Delivered

Set IMS Fast Path NBA/OBA Default Values

I would like to have IBM provide an IMS level default value for Fast Path NBA/OBA parameter. A couple of years ago we added some new Fast Path DEDB SDEP databases to IMS to be used by the applications for logging. These databases needed to be upda...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Convert existing PSB/DBD to DDL statements in batch

Batch utility to convert members in PSBLIB and DBDLIB to DDL statements.
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

"Socket Listening Redesign" for DataPower mediated IMS ICAL callouts required for IMS and IMS Connect V12

Please provide the "Socket Listening Redesign" fix pack packaged such that this would be install-able for IMS V12 and IMS Connect V12
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Delivered

DBRC should refer to the staging data set of IMS directory

When IMS-managed ACB is enabled and some new DB definitions in the staging data set before the IMPORT command , DBRC does refer to the active data set, not staging data set, and DBRC returns RC=12. INIT.DBDS DBD(DBSX1252) DDN(DDSX1252) NOCATALG - ...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Batch utility to create DDL statement from existing IMS managed ACB metadata

We need a batch utility to create DDL statements from existing IMS managed ACB metadata. E4D has similar functionality and we need this as a batch utility because with large ACB, E4D may have performance issues.
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Dynamically determine which IMS system needs to do the Update or Refresh PSB command

We need the ability for the IMPORT DEFN(CATALOG) command to dynamically determine which OPTION to use (UPDATEPSB/REFRESHPSB) and not rely on the customer/user to make that determination.
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Delivered