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New type-2 update/query cmd support for LOGSTR

Add command support for the LOGSTR parameter in IMS PROCLIB member DFSYDT.. that is used to specify the behaviour on how IMS will share the NSCP information with RACF. Today it's difficult to verify the content of LOGSTR and the installation can o...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Today IMS can startup its CSL Stasks of SCI,OM,RM; extend to startup CQS(for RM) and ODBM

Today IMS via its DFSDFxxx member allows its CSL address spaces (SCI/OM/RM) to be started by the IMS Control region using: SCIPROC=,OMPROC=,RMPROC=. However, our CSL setup for RM requires a 'non-shared Queues' CQS to be started, if the CQS is not...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with IMS Connect

IMS Connect need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Reduce IMS ECSA Consumption when using DC Mon on busy systems.

When DC Monitor is started for the first time on a busy IMS system, we observe ECSA growth of several MB, which is not released when DC Monitor is stopped.
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

zOS Connect tracking token in x'56FA' records

We are seeing a large increase in traffic to our backend IMS systems using z/OS Connect and API. We offload z/OS Connect SMF records to splunk along with IMS x'56FA' records. z/OS Connect provides a tracking token which currently IMS stores in x'0...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

API to Return RACF Custom Fields

Capability similar to the Call ‘CBLTDLI' USING AUTH I/O_PCB I/O_AREA API to view a signed on user's additional RACF details from the segments that are defined to that Userid most specially the RACF Custom Fields that are defined for that user. Cur...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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