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    Support multiple callouts in the same interaction when using IMS Transaction Orchestration

    IMS Transaction Orchestration enable IMS transactions to make callouts asynchronously while the original IMS client is kept waiting. But only one callout can be made in one interaction. We use IMS Transaction Orchestration to enable IMS applicatio...
    about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future consideration

    Externalize X'4032' Checkpoint Log record layout

    Provide a DSECT and/or layout of the data within the X'4032' checkpoint log record " OTMA TPIPE/QAB/TIB/MTE/MCB". The main use we have in mind for this is we'd be able to see the ENQCT, DEQCT, QCT for all Tpipes at a given checkpoint. Similar to w...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future consideration

    Allow specification of region type in IMS command - UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH)

    Currently when we promote programs we stop and start all our message regions. Doing a UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH) returns a return code of 8 due to - CC 48 NOT ALLOWED FOR IMS RESOURCE. This means we would not be able to setup alerting on th...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

    TM RA support for SEND_ONLY with ACK

    In the SEND_ONLY scenario without ACK, IMS input messages are lost when the IMS transaction is stopped. There is no notification (SEND_ONLY without ACK). Unlike IMS Connect API, IMS TM Resource Adapter does not support the SEND_ONLY protocol with ...
    about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

    IMS TM Resource Adapter support on Spring Boot

    We have several Java applications needing to invoke IMS transactions running on Cloud Native Platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry). It would be beneficial if support was added for Spring Boot functionality for deployment of the resource adapter TMRA.
    over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 3 Future consideration

    Make available the TMRA dependencies on a maven repository

    Some clients cannot manually download dependencies or upload them to artifactory. For those clients like us, we would like a public Maven repository with the TMRA dependecies.
    over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

    For CHNG calls during OTMA transactions processing, used a cached ACEE

    When OTMA transactions with OTMASEC=FULL make a CHNG call to another transaction, IMS creates a new ACEE in the MPP. There is already an ACEE for the USERID of the transactions in the IMS Control Region. IMS should use that existing cached ACEE (o...
    over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

    Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

    When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
    almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

    Security for commands through OM (OCM) on resource level. UPD TRAN NAME(MYTRAN) ... IMS.CSLPLEX.UPD.TRAN.MYTRAN

    When application programmers will make commands from ZOWE, Ansible etc. it will be necessary to protect resources so a programmer could only work with her/his own resources. Even for Type-1 commands through OM (OCM) and CIMS/DIMS for DIS TRAN MYTR...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

    OTMA orphaned TIBs clean up

    On May 26th, 2022, we had an incident due to IMS was reaching the maximum limit of TIBs As per the analysis, the situation was being caused by orphaned TIBs (case TS009519474) According to the analysis, some transactions coming from MQ-OTMA did...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

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