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IMS Transaction Manager

    DFSJVMAP member of the IMS PROCLIB data set is not available for the STDENV option

    The DFSJVMEV and DFSJVMMS members of the IMS proclib can be overruled by using the //STDENV option in JCL. Is it possible to make this also available for the DFSJVMAP member? This would improve the DEVOPS experience when using the STDENV option in...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Support origin based (3270/OTMA) transaction security

    Being able to authorize transaction based on origin (OTMA/3270) would help in migration and modernization efforts. Proposal to add additional RACF class to be used in distinguishing between a 3270 transaction and OTMA transaction authorization, or...
    4 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 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...
    over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 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
    12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

    IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Improve diagnosis for IMS Applications with Java and PL/I language interoperability

    In a standard IMS region, we can set TRAP / ABTERMENC /TERMTHDACT options through the CEEOPTS DD and activate SLIP to get a complete dump of the problem (if needed), but this is not possible in MPR regions with a mix of PL/I and Java because IMS s...
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Under review

    Use 64-bit storage for OTMA TPIPEs

    Nowadays OTMA is one of the most important pieces in IMS. Given the big range of TCP/IP clients is quite difficult to manage OTMA TPIPEs in a complex scenario. Although the latest development enhancements are more than welcome, they aren't fixing ...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

    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...
    about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

    Support product enablement and disablement via IFAPRDxx for IMS

    In our environment we use IMS and MQ only on specific LPARs. If we could disable them on the LPAR we are not licensed we could avoid licensing issues in case of a user error.
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Be able to preload classes in JVM for executing Java IMS transactions

    To avoid a significant CPU and elapsed time impact after a JVM restart—particularly on the first executed transactions—it may be a good idea to preload a list of Java classes before the business applications start running, during JVM initializatio...
    9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Future consideration

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