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    How to prevent queueing msg's for specific transaction

    When a bmp is inserting msg's on the IMS-Q for a specific transaction which can not be processed by IMS due to a logical error, IMS-Q is raising all the time which ultimately can lead to a fail of IMS. While a lot of bmp's are running at that time...
    over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    OTMA orphaned TIBs clean up

    On May 26th, 2022, we had an incident due to IMS was reaching the maximum limit of TIBs As per the analysis, the situation was being caused by orphaned TIBs (case TS009519474) According to the analysis, some transactions coming from MQ-OTMA did...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Future consideration

    New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

    Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
    over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    IMS Connect option to close sessions with a FIN at shutdown

    At an IMS Connect Shutdown, IMS Connect stops listening on the ports and closes the TCP/IP communication. It is not closing each session and sending a FIN to the front-end devices. we would like a parameter or option that will perform the "clean"...
    6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

    PROCLIM cputime with a higher degree of accuracy

    In case of non-FP transaction, PROCLIM cputime parameter must be specified in seconds. But, if cpu resources are very limited, clients wants to specify it more accurate like hundreds of seconds.
    over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

    If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
    about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

    Network security credential propagation should have a parm for activation

    We have a very high volume IMS environment, using IMS Connect. The Network Security Credential Propagation (NSCP) enhancement in IMS V15 will allow additional security information (up to 504 bytes) to flow in from the client side if all components...
    over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Different behaviours of IMS when a transaction is stopped.

    When a transaction is stopped and a new primary message arrives, IMS returns the beautifull “DFS065 TRAN/LTERM stopped” message and does not queue the message..But when the message arrives from prog-to-prog (secondary message), the message is queu...
    almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".

    Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".We do have a zos usermod in one of client system which changes the LE delimiter separator character from "/" to "\" and...
    8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Enable IMS AIBTDLI INQY ENVIRON call to retrieve IMS Function Level

    Please refer to IBM case TS002966101 and also note that if this information is entered into the PMR ID: field of the RFE submission URL, the error message "The PMR ID is not valid. The ID should have the format XXXXX,YYY,ZZZ using numbers for the ...
    about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

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