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IMS Quiesce Type-2 coomand. Be able to route the command to a specific IMS Region while defined in IMS PLEX.

When IMS Type-2 QUIESCE command was attempted on a non-sharing IMS system. and supposed to be for specific region - the QUIESCE command was routed to ALL members of the PLEX.
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 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...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

XPCS workarea allocated in 24 bit storage causing subsequent program load failures.

When the CDC exit gets loaded it is in the dependentregions storage and the XPCB and XSDB control blocks are in the dependent region private storage according to the AMODE of the exit. . The XPCS workarea is being allocated in only 24 bit storage ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Is a defect

Include LOGSTR parameter in the RACROUTE REQUEST for IMS commands.

IMS command RACROUTE requests apparently lack the LOGSTR parameter. Change IMS command RACROUTE requests to include the LOGSTR parameter.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

New fields other Dependent_Region.External_Subsystem_Calls, one for DB2 and One for MQ.

We ask to create two additional fields other Dependent_Region. External_Subsystem_Calls ( all external call), one that contains call to the DB2 subsystem and other that contains calls to the MQ subsystem.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Option to have EXPRTIME produce WTO

Provide an option to write out a WTO when a transaction expires due to EXPRTIME, in addition to the current option of whether to take a U0243 ABEND or not. We also want to be able to catch all transactions that expire, not just the ones executed v...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Transaction Expiry to remove ABEND 0243

IMS Should be able to test message at GU to the IOPCB for transaction expiry, and send only an 'expired' message back without taking a U0243 abend.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Support Conversational Transactions on ISC TCP/IP for CICS - (Synchronous)

IMS already support asynchronous ISC TCP/IP for CICS and we would like to use this kind of connections for conversational transactions (synchronous). With this we will change our comunication between IMS and CICS from APPC SNA to TCP/IP.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 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