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

Lock Manager incompatibility between PI and IRLM

We are implementing IMSPLEX configuration for a customer (see diagram attached). Currently we have IMSP instance running on MVS2 LPAR and we are going to add IMSO (IMSP clone) into another new LPAR, using Shared Databases and Shared Queue. See det...
3 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...
7 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Add "user" field to PARMBLK

TI has a usermod where we require a field in PARMBLK (PXPARMS) to chain one of our data areas. This usermod has existed for 30+ years. We use one of the "reserved" fullwords at the end of PXPARMS to store the address of this area. We use the last ...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Add a way to stop queueing for STOPed transactions (for transaction switching)

When a transactions is STOPped, if you try to call one directly (from a terminal ou from IMS Connect), your requested will be rejected and the request will not queue. But if you make the call to the STOPped transaction from another transaction usi...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Enhancement in SSM configuration member

When you have a lot of Subsystem (DB2, MQ), you have to manage SSM File in order to use one or multiple subsystem.If you define all your susbsytem in one member, you need to define security access for this subsystem (READ access at least). For sec...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Give customers the option to activate the LE Langage Environment per configuration in IMS-connect

We implemented our ims-connect exits in Cobol, so we had to initialize the LE environment in the init phase.As the assembler skill is shrinking in the company, we try to eliminate as far as possible self-written assembler routines It makes also se...
over 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

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