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PassTicket support in IMS Connect API for Java when it is used to submit IMS type-2 commands to OM

Our program provides API services for various z/OS subsystems through Zowe Single-Sign-On (SSO) service. Any API service that supports RACF PassTicket can join this SSO. Db2 for z/OS supports PassTicket-based user authentication. To make all IMS s...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Delivered

TPIPE Checkpoint Statistics

We would like to have a statistics checkpoint record with TPIPE information, like the number of TPIPEs at the time of the checkpoint (global and per tmember), high water mark, etc.
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Make Backend TPIPEs small

Reduce storage utilization for Shared Queues Backend TPIPEs, so we can save storage to increase our MAXTP.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Delivered

STOP OTMA Granularity

Please provide heightened IMS command capabilities to stop OTMA traffic by individual OTMA Client ID and/or TPIPE; specifically, we are looking for the ability to stop INBOUND traffic to IMS via OTMA by TMEMBER / TPIPE while allowing OUTBOUND OTMA...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Delivered

OTMA with Conversation

Hello IBM, we use MQ-Bridge with Conversion-Transactions.But the conversion is not closed from remote, so the connection are hangig. GROUP/MEMBER XCF-STATUS USER-STATUS SECURITY TIB INPT DRUEXIT T/O TPCNT ACEEAGE MAXTP AMQP ACTIVE ACCEPT TRAFFIC C...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

ODBM IMS JDBC retrieve full IMS DB record without field definitions in DBD

In the customer DBD there is only the key field defined for the segments. When using the DL/I path interface, ODBM for performance reasons only returns the data for defined fields, not for the complete IMS DB record.The customer requests an enhanc...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 3 Delivered

Immediate Error Reply for not connected TPIPEs

Currently if a TPIPE is not connected/not in RESUME TPIPE status, IMS waits for the timeout and comes back with an error.In case WebSphere is shut down this leads to stalls in IMS and lots of error tickets/research.It would be better if IMS detect...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

TM RA Connection Pooling Support for Synchronous Callout Responses

From the TM RA Traces one could see, that the IMSTCPIPAdapter classes does connect(), send(), close() for every IMS Synchronous Callout Response.Customer wants to have connection pooling also for the Callout Responses similar to what TM RA does fo...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Protocol message to inform Resume Tpipe client with /STO TMEM xxxx TPIPE yyyy is entered

We occasionally have to dequeue Tpipes, usually because a client process is not operational or running slowly. The deque process involves a /STO, /DEQ, /STA sequence of IMS commands. If the IMS Connect client is connected while this takes place, i...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Delivered

OTMA to inform client when Resume Tpipe cancelled while waiting for delayed Ack - PI31424

When OTMA times out waiting for an Ack for CM-0 Resume Tpipe output the Resume Tpipe is cancelled without notifying the client. The subsequent deleyed Ack simply gets discarded leaving the client in a state of awaiting output from IMS but IMS does...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

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