What's new in IMS High Performance System Generation Tools
This topic summarizes recent technical changes to IMS HP Sysgen Tools.
New and changed information is denoted either by a character in the left margin
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technical significance are not noted.
SC27-9501-02 (December 2021)
This edition covers functional enhancements provided by the following APARs and other documentation changes.
| Description | APARs |
|---|---|
This APAR, which addresses the IMS 15 enhancement of the NAME keyword and the NOCHECK option
of the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command, provides enhancements on reloading ACBs in an
IMS-managed ACBs environment. See the following topics:
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PH40427 |
SC27-9501-01 (May 2021)
This edition covers functional enhancements provided by the following APARs and other documentation changes.
- APAR PH33096. This APAR provides enhancements on issuing IMS commands through the
ISPF Option C interface. See the following topics:
- APPC services
- Issuing IMS commands
- New or updated messages: IOH4729E, IOH5008E
- APAR PH29654. IMS HP System Generation Tools has been enhanced to support user
groups and IOH.LOGDLET.imsid profile. See the following topics:
- Step 8. Define security profiles
- Working with profiles
- Working with user group definitions
- New or updated messages: IOHA211, IOHA214, IOHA260, IOHA261, IOHA262, IOHA263, IOHA264, IOHA265, IOHD400
- APAR PH26682. This APAR provides enhancements for editing entries in the resource
update list. See the following topics:
- Adding program definitions
- Performing an edit
- New or updated messages: IOHA232, IOHA233, IOHA234, IOHA235, IOHA236, IOHA237, IOHA090 through IOHA096, IOHB019, IOHB021
- APAR PH25710. This APAR enhances IMS HP System Generation Tools to support IMSID
and IOHPDS startup parameters for the ISPF interface. See the following topics:
- Step 12. Optional: Add IMS HP Sysgen Tools to a user menu or call IOHEXEC from a user EXEC
- ISPF interface startup options
- New messages: IOHA240, IOHA241, IOHB034, IOHB035, IOHF070E, IOHF071E, IOHF072E
- APAR PH23753. This APAR provides a new utility called the Resource Update List
Generator. See the following topics:
- Using the Resource Update List Generator
- New messages: IOH7640I - IOH7650E
- APAR PH11959. See the following topics:
- Reloading an ACBLIB member by using IMS member level global online change
- Installation methods
- Control cards used for Batch Update List processing
- New messages: IOH7121E, IOH7122E, IOHA250
- Documentation changes for the installation store/forward function. See the following topic:
SC27-9501-00 (December 2018)
This edition applies to Version 2.4 of IMS HP Sysgen Tools. IMS HP Sysgen Tools 2.4 provides the following new major functions:
- Installation store/forward
- By using the installation store/forward function, you can have resource update lists installed later even if the installation failed because the target IMS was not active when IMS HP Sysgen Tools tried to install the resource update lists.
For more information about the installation store/forward function, see Configuring installation store/forward.
- IMSRSC repository support
- IMS HP Sysgen Tools now supports DRD-enabled environments that use the IMS resource definition (IMSRSC) repository.
- IMS Managed ACBs Activate
- By using the IMS Managed ACBs Activate method, you can activate a pending ACB member in the IMS directory staging data set. For more information about IMS Managed ACBs Activate, see the following topics:
- Batch Search utility (IOHBSRCH)
- The Batch Search utility searches definitions of databases, programs, transactions, and route
codes in IMS active system control blocks (CORE) or data sets
(MODBLKS, RDDS, or IMSRSC repository) for user-specified search words and generates corresponding
sysgen source macros (DATABASE, APPLCTN, TRANSACT, and RTCODE).
For more information about the Batch Search utility, see Using the Batch Search utility.
In addition to updates for IMS HP Sysgen Tools 2.4, the following updates have also been made for this edition:
- Documentation changes for APAR PI41969 and PI44598
- Added new messages IOH3210E, IOH3211E, IOH3212E
- Updated messages IOHG306E, IOH4110E, IOH241S
- Added descriptions for running the Resource Update List Create utility (IOHCLIST) with SOURCE=DELETE
- Added descriptions for the storage functions (Option 2 (CSA))
- Removed descriptions about DFSPPUE0 alias