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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

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...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future 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

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.
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

PROCLIM and CPU time

Currently, the cpu time is calculated for each schedule but not for each transaction. For example, if I choose a PROCLIM(5,1), the limit will be 5 x 1 = 5s for the schedule. So IMS stop the schedule if it reaches this limit. But, not necessary if ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration