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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

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

Change/increase MAXTP for IMS/TMEMBERs dynamically

Currently, to change the global limit for MAXTP or an individual TMEMBER limit, we need to edit the DFSYDT* members of the PROCLIB and recycle the IMS.
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Change/increase MAXSOC for IMS Connect dynamically

The total number of sockets that IMS Connect supports across all TCP/IP ports at the same time is set by the MAXSOC parameter in the TCPIP configuration statement of the IMS Connect configuration member. If the number of sockets reaches the maximu...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration