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Make the LE enclave persistent in IMS MPPs without the need of a JVM running in the message region

With API provider and z/OS Connect configured in MPP there is a requirement to set the LLE with POSIX(ON), this drives massive volumes of SMF030 records to be created which leads to issues at offload. from IBM IMS development: From what we have se...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Add support for message-driven JBP

Currently IMS Java batch programs can't be message-driven. This prevents the modernization of message-driven BMPs and new applications with this processing pattern to be implemented in Java or forces you to using MQ to queue the messages (if MQ is...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

Adjust program mask to Java expectations around IMS calls to Java

When control is "in IMS" and an exception takes place, LE terminates the enclave with a U4036-1 without any recovery attempts as would normally be the case. Specifically, when IMS calls Java, the program mask should be as expected by Java--that is...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

IMS support for OSGi Framework

IMS should support OSGi Framework within IMS Regions (applications)
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Transaction and Timestamp for COBOL DISPLAYS in IMS TM

Add IMS transaction code and timestamp (date and time) to output generated by COBOL DISPLAYs, similar to the CICS environment. When a COBOL DISPLAY is invoked in the CICS environment, the data passed to the DISPLAY command is prefxed on output to ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under consideration

A dynamic PRELOAD in dependant IMS region

Hi, For a Message Processing Region or Fast Path Region, it is possible to enable PRELOAD with a list of modules specified in a DFSMPLxx member of the IMS PROCLIB. To maintain a such static list in DFSMPLxx member is quit a heavy task. If it will ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under 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 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

"false" U0240

z/OS only allows one STIMER per task (TCB) so when an application program is setting his STIMER it negates the STIMER that IMS has already set and this could lead to an U0240 abend which is not a real one because the proclim has not been reached. ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Reuse of DB2 prepared statements in IMS JBP (and BMP) regions

Java applications running in an IMS JBP (or BMP) region are not able to reuse DB2 prepared statements after doing a checkpoint call by using the Transaction.checkpoint() or the Transaction.checkpoint(SaveArea) method. If you try to reuse them you ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

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