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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

How to prevent queueing msg's for specific transaction

When a bmp is inserting msg's on the IMS-Q for a specific transaction which can not be processed by IMS due to a logical error, IMS-Q is raising all the time which ultimately can lead to a fail of IMS. While a lot of bmp's are running at that time...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Customer would like to have DataPower support for resume Tpipe. Have Front side Handler for ICON (Resume Tpipe support)

Customer applications are using ISRT ALTPCB and Datapower only supports ICAL and customers have to revise applications. It is a bottleneck to deploy Datapower to customers . It would be awesome if Datapower can support Resume Tpipe and nothing wil...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS Connect option to close sessions with a FIN at shutdown

At an IMS Connect Shutdown, IMS Connect stops listening on the ports and closes the TCP/IP communication. It is not closing each session and sending a FIN to the front-end devices. we would like a parameter or option that will perform the "clean"...
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

PROCLIM cputime with a higher degree of accuracy

In case of non-FP transaction, PROCLIM cputime parameter must be specified in seconds. But, if cpu resources are very limited, clients wants to specify it more accurate like hundreds of seconds.
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration