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IMS Transaction Manager

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Compatibility of IMS TM Resource Adapter with Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors) Namespace

We currently migrate a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). So far we used the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 with Java EE in a large number applications. We need an enhancement, to...
11 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future 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

IMS TM Resource Adapter compatible with Java 17 and Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors)

We currently migrating APIs SpringBoot applications from Java version 8 to 17. Currently, we are using IBM Liberty Host and IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.7) to integrate with IMS 15.1 with Java version 8. However, we need to migrate to Java v...
11 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

TM RA support for SEND_ONLY with ACK

In the SEND_ONLY scenario without ACK, IMS input messages are lost when the IMS transaction is stopped. There is no notification (SEND_ONLY without ACK). Unlike IMS Connect API, IMS TM Resource Adapter does not support the SEND_ONLY protocol with ...
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access 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

IMS TM Resource Adapter support on Spring Boot

We have several Java applications needing to invoke IMS transactions running on Cloud Native Platform (Pivotal Cloud Foundry). It would be beneficial if support was added for Spring Boot functionality for deployment of the resource adapter TMRA.
10 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Today IMS can startup its CSL Stasks of SCI,OM,RM; extend to startup CQS(for RM) and ODBM

Today IMS via its DFSDFxxx member allows its CSL address spaces (SCI/OM/RM) to be started by the IMS Control region using: SCIPROC=,OMPROC=,RMPROC=. However, our CSL setup for RM requires a 'non-shared Queues' CQS to be started, if the CQS is not...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Supporting the OTMA protocol with the FES Exit

This would be useful for making an asynchronous outbound, calling external systems like cloud without the risk of queues on IMS or even hold IMS resources. It would be a benefit for clients who needs to make a connection with external systems. We ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Add support for message-driven JBP

Currently IMS Java batch programs can't be message-driven. This prevents the modernization of message-driven BMPs and new applications with this processing pattern to be implemented in Java or forces you to using MQ to queue the messages (if MQ is...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration