Coupling facility requirements

IMS 15 has the following coupling facility requirements.

A coupling facility level of 15 or later is required for the following functions:

  • Operations Manager (OM) Audit Trail, if a coupling facility log stream is used
  • Parallel RECON access support
  • Repository Server Audit Log, if a coupling facility log stream is used
  • Resource Manager (RM), if a resource structure is used
  • Shared-EMH support
  • Shared queues
  • Sysplex data sharing (including data caching and VSO data sharing) with Internal Resource Lock Manager (IRLM) V2.3