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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...
9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Add a new DISPLAY for CLASS

Currently, one of our customers is using the IMS command /STO CLASS CLASS# to stop the transaction execution in one of the IMSs in the PLEX environment. However, there is only one command to investigate the CLASS situation /DIS STATUS CLASS, and i...
about 2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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 2 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 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

How to prevent queueing msg's for specific transaction

When a bmp is inserting msg's on the IMS-Q for a specific transaction which can not be processed by IMS due to a logical error, IMS-Q is raising all the time which ultimately can lead to a fail of IMS. While a lot of bmp's are running at that time...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

PROCLIM cputime with a higher degree of accuracy

In case of non-FP transaction, PROCLIM cputime parameter must be specified in seconds. But, if cpu resources are very limited, clients wants to specify it more accurate like hundreds of seconds.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

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