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    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

    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...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General 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...
    almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

    Make parm ISSUE681=xx also available in an IMS/DC environment

    Hi, Option ISSUE681=xx - which specifies the number of DFS681I messages per second within a batch or BMP region - is only available in a IMS DB/DC environment. Due to massive checkpoints in our IMS/DC system, we regularly experienced delays on IMS...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    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

    AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

    With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

    Support of jakarta package and JDK 17+ for IMS TM RESOURCE ADAPTER

    Good morning. We are actually using IMS TM Resource Adapter, but despite the continous evolution of the java standard we are still force to stay on old JAVAEE 8 standard, due to the missing of support from IMS TM Resource Adapter to JAKARTA EE pac...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Planned for future release

    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

    Display or messages to monitoring the available private storage

    We think it would be very useful to have messages or displays to monitor the available private storage (below the line, above the line and above the bar). In other products have message or displays to monitor the private storage: - In MQ we have m...
    10 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

    Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
    about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

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