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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...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 13 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.
    almost 8 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 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Flexible Alignment Storage Display

    Currently FA aligns its storage display at starting addresses which are multiples of 16. This is often unconvenient: Sometimes application data is not properly aligned: - address pointers not on word boundery are not point-and-shootable - bad alig...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Better Support of WMQ-Applications

    Currently Fault Analyzer does not properly recognize that an abending Batch-Job or CICS transaction is connected to Websphere MQ. In these cases FA does not show any information related to MQ and last MQ-API calls.This flaw seems to arise when the...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    Stop transactions coming from all sources.

    We need a command or procedure to stop transactions comming from all sources, like, prog-to-prog, CICS (APPC), MSC, JAVA, IMS Connect, etc.We can´t use Stop Link(MSC), because another transactions use same link.
    over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 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.
    about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 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 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

    IMS Connect Recorder Trace on port number level

    Provide the possibility to start an IMS Connect Recorder Trace for a specific port id.
    about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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