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z/OS Connect support for IMS metadata queries and IMS commands / IMS metadata query and IMS command response in JSON format

Most of the new applications are web-based nowadays. The easiest way to process data in web-based applications is to receive and send the data in JSON format and transform JSON data into JavaScript objects. That is why z/OS Connect uses JSON inste...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

Trace parms should have option to be dynamically changed via IMS commands

Some problems may require a trace in order to see the problem details. Depending upon the required trace different trace parms may be required. In order to change the trace parms a subsystem recycle may be required requiring a service impact. In o...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

For CHNG calls during OTMA transactions processing, used a cached ACEE

When OTMA transactions with OTMASEC=FULL make a CHNG call to another transaction, IMS creates a new ACEE in the MPP. There is already an ACEE for the USERID of the transactions in the IMS Control Region. IMS should use that existing cached ACEE (o...
about 1 year 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 ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under 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...
about 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.
about 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...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

SGW-Enterprise: Provide hooks for integration of data compression between ICON and IMS

Provide a hook at side of ICON and IMS to integrate custumor code to implement a data compression/uncompression in wsdl first scenario of SGW-enterprise solution. This hooks have been provided in generated XML-converter and MPP-template.
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 6 Not under consideration