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ICON TM RA implement auto affinity for IMS Sync Callout Response

The docs say, that the IMS Callout Response needs to be sent to the originating IMS. It is very difficult to ensure this with Dynamic VIPA and 4 shared queues Members.Customer requests, that HWSJAVA0 IMS Connect exit sends the originating Datastor...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Resume TPIPE auto and explicite acknowledgement support in CCI implementations of the IMS TM Resource Adapter

The IMS TM Resource Adapter supports two implementations: A message-driven bean (MDB) and a Common Client Interface (CCI) implementation. When using the CCI implementation currently the resume TPIPE auto option can't be used for callout message pr...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Resume TPIPE wait forever cancel timer for IMS Connect shutdown

IMS Connect resume TPIPE clients permanently listening on TPIPEs to retrieve sychronous / asynchronous callout request messages or undeliverable / re-routed output messages are currently blocking a normal IMS Connect shutdown, because IMS Connect ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Expedite the OTMA ACEE cleanup

Some IMS customers have many cached OTMA ACEEs for RACF userids. Searching through hash synonym chains for OTMA ACEEs is using much CPU. The number of hash chains should be increased from the current 509. Also – if the ACEEs were chained in ascend...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

SPUFI-like DDL interface

As discussed during IMS managed ACB meeting, we would prefer to have SPUFI-like DDL interface instead of java based SQL Batch utility.
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Enhance TMRA to get the name of the program performing a callout

APAR PH24630 added the IMS program name of the program performing a callout to the OTMA state header of the callout message. Please add a method to TMRA to get this information from the OTMA state header.
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

OTMA Front-End Switch

Our IMS client has following business requirement : DataPower ==> ICON8 ==> IMS A ==> ICON3 ==> IMS B ==> ICON3 ==> IMS A ==> ICON8 ==> DataPower We need the IMS front-end switch function so that the send-receive call from ...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Improve IMS OTMA resilience in periods of system slowdown.

OTMA storage utilization includes static storage for control blocks and variable storage for various buffers and working storage.The variable storage both varies in size and in duration of allocation, depending on phase of OTMA processing.System s...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Support passing Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java

We would like to pass Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java. Currently this is only supported using ROY IMS Connect clients or using IMS TM Resource Adapter. Our main IMS Connect client is written in Java and uses t...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Autonomic MAXTP TPIPE limit

IMS should optionally autonomically calculate TPIPE limits, instead of making clients calculate what their MAXTP parameter should be.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

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