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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

Ability to display tpipes with a filter on those that have messages queued.

Use the IMS display command to display TPIPES with a queue count only. The current IMS display command for TPIPES yields all tpipes with and without a queue count. This feature should have an optional filter parameter as part of the display comman...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

XPCS workarea allocated in 24 bit storage causing subsequent program load failures.

When the CDC exit gets loaded it is in the dependentregions storage and the XPCB and XSDB control blocks are in the dependent region private storage according to the AMODE of the exit. . The XPCS workarea is being allocated in only 24 bit storage ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Is a defect

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the YTIBs

Each YTIB for an IMS OTMA queued message consumes about 8K of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. To know how many YTIBs you can afford it depends how much EPVT the IMS CTL region uses at various times. To estimate of how much space ...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Add "user" field to PARMBLK

TI has a usermod where we require a field in PARMBLK (PXPARMS) to chain one of our data areas. This usermod has existed for 30+ years. We use one of the "reserved" fullwords at the end of PXPARMS to store the address of this area. We use the last ...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Add a way to stop queueing for STOPed transactions (for transaction switching)

When a transactions is STOPped, if you try to call one directly (from a terminal ou from IMS Connect), your requested will be rejected and the request will not queue. But if you make the call to the STOPped transaction from another transaction usi...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

field containing CVTSNAME in log record x'56FA'

we need a new field in record x'56FA'.this field should contain value CVTSNAME (euqal to field ST4500_OSNAME in record x'4500')
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Give customers the option to activate the LE Langage Environment per configuration in IMS-connect

We implemented our ims-connect exits in Cobol, so we had to initialize the LE environment in the init phase.As the assembler skill is shrinking in the company, we try to eliminate as far as possible self-written assembler routines It makes also se...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

DFSYDT suffix to be independant of the IMS Nucleus Suffix

We run multiple IMS environments on single LPAR's. Each IMS Environment has the same IMS Nucleus Suffix. We require different DFSYDT members for each environment as the descriptors defined for each environment are unique per IMS environment. We re...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration