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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...
8 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

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...
over 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

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with IMS Connect

IMS Connect need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Reduce IMS ECSA Consumption when using DC Mon on busy systems.

When DC Monitor is started for the first time on a busy IMS system, we observe ECSA growth of several MB, which is not released when DC Monitor is stopped.
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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