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Parallel TPIPE support for IMS TM RA

Problem:Currently when defining an ActivationSpec for an IMS Callout MDB it is only possible to specify the same TPIPE once, although IMS V14 supports multiple Resume TPIPEs to a single TPIPE, which are then served in round robin fashion.So curren...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS SINGLE TCB per TMEMBER BOTTLENECK

The current IMS design has a single TCB per TMEMBER, resulting in bottlenecks once transaction volume approaches the critical limit (which is unknown at this time). While IMS performance testing has shown IMS can handle 100K trxs per second, the b...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

External BPE Trace to support SMS MGMTCLAS

IMS Connect External BPE trace supports the SMS STORCLAS parameter but not the MGMTCLAS parameter.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

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

Increase performance of OTMA CM0 tpipes

Using CM0 IMS logging of intput and output messages becomes a bottleneck as message throughput increases on a tpipe. This is often hard to discern as internal transaction responses are unaffected but messages may be significantly delayed on enteri...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 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

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