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IMS display commands

When a dependent region cannot schedule a PSB due to a pool space failure, the IMS display commands ( such as /DIS A ) should identify which pool caused the schedule failure.This has already been done for EPCB pool but it would be useful for all t...
almost 9 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 ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 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...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 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...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 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...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Function to expire a transaction during execution

The current transaction expiry feature for full function transactions uses the in-queue time to decide whether to process the transaction or not. Once the transaction starts executing there is the PROCLIM value to specify a CPU limit, but no oppor...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Translate Authorization ID in IMS MPP

Translate Authorization ID into another before calling Stored Procedure in DB2
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

kill transactions based on elapsed time

Provide a way for IMS to automatically timeout transactions based on the total time elapsed from the transaction first being queued.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

A short running IMS region for IMS TM customers

A TM only user can start a short running IMS region to quickly resolve external subsystem infight and in doubt units of work
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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