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Deferred ACB open
When IMS is started, the VTAM ACB is opened and logon requests flow. These requests will
be queued until a
/START DC command is issued.
In some emergency restart scenarios, the
/START DC may not be effective until all the
necessary log records are processed. Some devices like ATMs may logon to IMS, and these
sessions will queue until the
/START DC has completed. This increases the possibility that
these remote devices will time-out before IMS can accept the logon request.
To resolve this, the IMS parameter VACBOPEN within the DFSDCxxx member of PROCLIB
has been provided. This parameter determines whether IMS will open the VTAM ACB at
startup, or defer ...