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Message Queue Management

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Improving the queue manager large message processing

In a shared queue enviroment and we would like to request an improvement in QUEUE MANAGER MESSAGE RETRIEVE process to use less QBUF for large messages.This was suggested after RFE 60792 was declined.
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

Supporting the OTMA protocol with the FES Exit

An important line of business of the Bank, Itau Home Banking (Internet Banking), will benefit greatly from this enhancement. Currently the Internet Banking uses SNA/3270 with the FES Exit to hold the terminal in SYSTEM (without holding IMS resourc...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

Parallel processing in a region while waiting for sycnhronous ICAL call response

We foresee increased Intention to use of IMS applications as consumers of web services. With the current ICAL design a dependent region will be occupied by a single transaction waiting for a response to a synchronous callout request. This is not a...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

MQSeries MQMD data available using an IMS INQY call.

If possible we prefer to connect our MQ Series clients using OTMA, since this solution is more scalable. To minimize allocation of IMS resources, we have made it possible to run these applications in an asyncronous way. Our challenge is to be able...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

reopen of ID: 109777

My understanding was that IBM was now going to work on developing a change to address ID: 109777 , RCT ID: 89883 , other ID: 105737 but have not seen any update to it regarding this statue change. I also added a new comment as base on further read...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

Originating region information and recovery token needed for express messages

For express messages, the recovery token and PST number are needed in the 35 log record for diagnostic and reporting purposes. Without this information there is currently no way with only log records to associate the express message with the non-m...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

OTMA Flood Protection should allow use of all available private storage

IMS OTMA flood protection limit maximum is 9,999 messages. We have much more extended private defined in our system and should be able to take advantage of however much extended private we would like before going into flood protection.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Add support for /STO and /STA of DFSOTMAQ

DFSOTMAQ was moved to Shared Queues Overflow during a system problem. There was an issue with the INFORM but no way to re-drive it without stopping and starting all of OTMA.
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration