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Message Queue Management

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AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

Client sendrecv interaction want to receive ISRT ALTPCB output from IMS region

For client who use SENDRECV interaction, it wait for IMS region response by ISRT IOPCB. However, if region use ISRT ALTPCB to send message, the output meessage keep in HOLDQ and client need to use RESUME TPIPE to receive the response message.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Alter output location for message DFS2014 DFS2015 DFS2016 DFS2017 DFS2018

Alter messages DFS2014 DFS2015 DFS2016 DFS2017 DFS2018 to appear on IMS Control region SYSTEM JOB log as well as the MTO or instead of the MTO
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

MQSeries MQMD data available using an IMS INQY call.

If possible we prefer to connect our MQ Series clients using OTMA, since this solution is more scalable. To minimize allocation of IMS resources, we have made it possible to run these applications in an asyncronous way. Our challenge is to be able...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

reopen of ID: 109777

My understanding was that IBM was now going to work on developing a change to address ID: 109777 , RCT ID: 89883 , other ID: 105737 but have not seen any update to it regarding this statue change. I also added a new comment as base on further read...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

IMS output message flood control

IMS has already a flood control for input messages. This covers the most common cases of message flooding in IMS. Even if mass insertion of output messages is very unusual, it is as ciritical to the system stability as mass insertion of input mess...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

IMS Transaction Manager : Output format of DFSILTA0

【Problem】Despite DFSILTA0 output format being changed, it seems there is no guide in the manual.We use IMS V13. (upgrade from V9 to V13 in 2016)Since V10, since the proc result of DFSILTA0 was now outputted in multiple lines, it wasn't possible to...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS AMS - Advanced Message Service

Implement IMS functionality to support MQ Series Advanced Message Services (AMS) for transactions using the IMS-bridge connection.IMS applications are already today able explore this functionality if the design is to use MQ explicit access to the ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Expiration of Output Messages

Currently input messages to transactions can be expired with the use of EXPRTIME.Output messages have no such option to expire old messages. Having the option to expire old output messages, either globally or for specific Lterms or Tpipes, would b...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration