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Application Enablement

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Reuse of DB2 connections and DB2 prepared statements in IMS JMP regions

Java applications running in an IMS JMP region have to reestablish the DB2 connection for each input message they process. Because of this prepared statements also cannot be reused when processing the next input message. They have to be prepared a...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Not under consideration

Better management of IMS PGM name to Java class name mappings

For IMS Java programms (both Java batch and Java message processing programs) a mapping between IMS program names and Java class names must be provided in IMS PROCLIB member DFSJVMAP. Such a mapping within this member looks like this: IMSJAVPG=com...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 4 Not under consideration

IMS support for OSGi Framework

IMS should support OSGi Framework within IMS Regions (applications)
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

IMS JAVA to honor POSIX signaling

POSIX standards allow users to signal to processes. This signaling capability might be honored by the UNIX runtime itself or propagated to the middleware on top of the Unix implementation (or thread). Typically: USS kill -n is the used user-interf...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Transaction and Timestamp for COBOL DISPLAYS in IMS TM

Add IMS transaction code and timestamp (date and time) to output generated by COBOL DISPLAYs, similar to the CICS environment. When a COBOL DISPLAY is invoked in the CICS environment, the data passed to the DISPLAY command is prefxed on output to ...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Add Parameter to AUTH Call to Supress ICH408 Messages

Add a parameter to the AUTH call that suppresses ICH408 messages, especially in cases where authorization failures are expected.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Define GPSB with EXPRESS=YES

To avoid PSBgen and ACBgen processes in an IMS/DC only environment when IOPCB's with EXPRESS=YES have to be defined.Customer uses of GPSB and, since GPSB are IMS generated and so to not require PSB/ACBgen, they are asking if GPSB capability could ...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Provide granularity for activating RRS

At present RRS can only be activiated via the RRS paremeter in the IMS Control region. The RRS overhead is excessive, so we need the ability to turn it on as and when needed, preferably at the individual transaction level.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

IMS Parallel ICAL calls

The ICAL call allows applications to synchronously call out to external applications. This requirement is to allow multiple synchronous callouts to be issued in parallel with the application waiting for replies when it has issued the last ICAL in ...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

"false" U0240

z/OS only allows one STIMER per task (TCB) so when an application program is setting his STIMER it negates the STIMER that IMS has already set and this could lead to an U0240 abend which is not a real one because the proclim has not been reached. ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

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