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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

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

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
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Passticket support for HWSSMPL1 (connect API)

HWSSMPL1 does not support passticket and we need passticket support for HWSSMPL1. One of our major application uses connect API which use HWSSMPL1 and we are looking at strengthening password using passphrase.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the TPIPES

Each TPIPE control block for an IMS OTMA consumes stores of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. It has associated other control blocks also allocated at Extended Private Storage.Using 64-bit storage could be a very good enhancement.
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Move DLMP/PSBC, PSBW and LUMC pools off ECSA

RFE #78091 is about moving EPCB and CSAPSB pool off ECSA to reduce ECSA usage of IMS. We would like to also have DLMP/PSBC, PSBW and LUMC pool moved off ECSA.
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration