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    Being able to protect an IMS TM system from to many BMP checkpoint messages

    In an IMS TM only system there is no way to configure the IMS system so it's protected from BMP's that flood the system with checkpoint messages. There is a parameter OPTIONS ISSUE681. That option isn't read by the IMS system when you have an IMS ...
    about 19 hours ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Submitted

    Option for TRANSACT PLCTTIME time based on elapsed time (currently CPU time)

    Currently PLCTTIME is based on CPU time. However it is hard to transpose CPU time into the real world for transaction timeouts. If there was an option to set PLCTTIME based on elapsed time this could easily be mapped to the expiry time of the tran...
    4 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Submitted

    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...
    13 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Submitted

    Allow TAZ to capture calls that get the current date for replay

    There are programs that perform logic based on the current date. For example, transaction processing. The way to handle the transaction could vary based on when the transaction was received. When capturing the original test case, the recording cap...
    about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Submitted

    Support for PL/I

    Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

    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
    4 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

    Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
    over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Compilation directive to inform the compiler of the end of sequential code execution (call to exit / abend routine)

    Hi, We have observed that compiler optimization, particularly PERFORM inlining, can be disrupted by certain constructs in the COBOL source code: EXEC CICS RETURN EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND LABEL CALL to subprogram without expected return, (abend...
    29 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Review of SQL coding rules when using the Db2 coprocessor integrated into the compiler

    Hi, Based on our tests, when using the Db2 coprocessor integrated into the COBOL compiler, it is possible to declare an SQL cursor that uses host variables before those host variables are declared . This restriction should only apply to the use of...
    about 1 month ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

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