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    Writing IMS type x'99' log records for CDC to an external/separate IMS Log dataset.

    WE are currently running a single image of IMS, and have CDC streaming of DB updates enabled to and Enterprise Event Hub. Due to the number of DB's enabled for streaming, the volume of log records written since enabling CDC has significantly incre...
    4 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Submitted

    Be able to preload classes in JVM for executing Java IMS transactions

    To avoid a significant CPU and elapsed time impact after a JVM restart—particularly on the first executed transactions—it may be a good idea to preload a list of Java classes before the business applications start running, during JVM initializatio...
    6 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Submitted

    Prevent IMS from Stopping when GOLC is not finished

    When Global Online Change is running and no commit was done, IMS could be stop by operator (or System Automation) without kwnowing a GOLC is running.If it is the last IMS shutdown, we have for restarting to unlock the OLCSTAT file. To prevent this...
    2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    STO REG ALL

    If we want to stop manually an IMS, we have to stop each MPP manually by entering STO REG command with the REGID or Jobname. In order to accelerate the process, is it possible to have a command : STO REG ALL like STO TRAN ALL; STOP DB ALL
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    IMS Connect option to close sessions with a FIN at shutdown

    At an IMS Connect Shutdown, IMS Connect stops listening on the ports and closes the TCP/IP communication. It is not closing each session and sending a FIN to the front-end devices. we would like a parameter or option that will perform the "clean"...
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Enable Cancel Client ID option in IMS TM Resource Adapter

    TMRA allow 'Dedicated persisten sockets' which customer can manage ClientID name by application itself.However, If the connection is lost between ICON and TMRA, and it is due to firewall of netowrk device in between. This leaves the TMRA applicati...
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Under review

    IMS pools status mesages in IMS JOBLOG

    Hi, We believe it would be beneficial to have messages in the IMS joblog for the various IMS pools available (CBT, HIOP, LUMP, etc.) that provide information about their status and health, possibly including storage thresholds. The purpose of this...
    7 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    IMS Resource AdaptJava com.ibm.ims.connect.OutputMessage should contain LPAR (SMF ID ) and IMS ID that executed the transaction er

    Dear IBM Team, We are currently migrating a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). Throughout this process, we have relied on the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 across numerous applic...
    7 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager 0 Under review

    Support product enablement and disablement via IFAPRDxx for IMS

    In our environment we use IMS and MQ only on specific LPARs. If we could disable them on the LPAR we are not licensed we could avoid licensing issues in case of a user error.
    8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    SMF Log Record for Accounting

    It would be great if IMS produced a record within SMF that can be shipped across to IntelliMagic Vision. Currently we need to ship both SMF, AND our BMC 59 record from the IMS logs over to Intellimagic. It would simplify the client's management of...
    8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

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