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IMS Transaction Manager

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    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...
    9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    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
    3 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...
    12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Prevent IMS from Stopping when GOLC is not finished

    When Global Online Change is running and no commit was done, IMS could be stop by operator (or System Automation) without kwnowing a GOLC is running.If it is the last IMS shutdown, we have for restarting to unlock the OLCSTAT file. To prevent this...
    3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    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.
    8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Enable Cancel Client ID option in IMS TM Resource Adapter

    TMRA allow 'Dedicated persisten sockets' which customer can manage ClientID name by application itself.However, If the connection is lost between ICON and TMRA, and it is due to firewall of netowrk device in between. This leaves the TMRA applicati...
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Under review

    SMF Log Record for Accounting

    It would be great if IMS produced a record within SMF that can be shipped across to IntelliMagic Vision. Currently we need to ship both SMF, AND our BMC 59 record from the IMS logs over to Intellimagic. It would simplify the client's management of...
    8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 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 ...
    11 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

    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 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    Show end wait time for synchronous callouts in the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output

    IMS shows an end wait time for synchronous program switches in the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output. This is very helpful in some kinds of error situations. Although for synchronous callouts the same DL/I call is being used, the /DISPLAY ACTIVE comm...
    10 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

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