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Add SYNC point call to DFSMSCE0

Enhance IMS and exit DFSMSCE0 to be called at transaction sync point and include fields (like flags to indicate sync point type and application program characteristics) to determine the status of application termination. Also, Include when IMS iss...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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.
about 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

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

Improve CQS design to access IMS Logger Structure

Following the MVS System Logger's current design, reported by pmr 23734,228,631, the ASYNC logger calls to a CF Logger structure result in extra SRB schedule and processing for the logging explorers. Now that we are aware of this, if the logger ca...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

IMS/OTMA Trace improvements

Some IMS problems are intermittent and require follow-up actions in order to gather the required doc for diagnosis. An example of this is requiring an OTMA trace to discover improper processing. In a high availability, volume and performance envir...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS Connect Recorder Trace on port number level

Provide the possibility to start an IMS Connect Recorder Trace for a specific port id.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS "/MODIFY PREPARE ACBLIB" : transactions modified are refused to enter IMS

Between the "/MODIFY PREPARE ACBLIB" and the "/MODIFY COMMIT", the messages for the transactions related to the PSBs modified by the change are refused to enter IMS (message DFS3470). They ought to be accepted and suspend until the "/MODIFY COMMIT".
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Specify OTMA Destination Descriptors for TYPE=MQSERIES in DFSYDTx in shared PROCLIB

Implementation of TYPE=MQSERIES descriptors in DFSYDTx member have some drawbacks when using a shared PROCLIB.In an IMSplex with two MQ members, one in each LPAR with different names, you have to define the descriptor for both in the same DFSYDTx ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement in SSM configuration member

When you have a lot of Subsystem (DB2, MQ), you have to manage SSM File in order to use one or multiple subsystem.If you define all your susbsytem in one member, you need to define security access for this subsystem (READ access at least). For sec...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration