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Reduce IMS ECSA Consumption when using DC Mon on busy systems.

When DC Monitor is started for the first time on a busy IMS system, we observe ECSA growth of several MB, which is not released when DC Monitor is stopped.
over 2 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 ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Locked data due to failure in DB2 thread deallocation in MPP abend

On transaction abends additional failures can occur that prevent deallocation of the DB2 threads. DB2 data may remain locked until the problem is noticed and the thread is cancelled or the MPP region recycled.When IMS fails to deallocate the DB2 t...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Informatio...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Eliminate BMP checkpoint messages from an archive sysprint

Right now we are trying to eliminate all of our USERMODS in order to be in a more IBM standard way. We almost achivied this task but one of our USERMODS can not be eliminate. The USERMOD is the MI00012. This USERMOD gives you the option to skip wr...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

ICAL Synchronous callout to MQ destination

Today we see an increasing demand from our IMS application developers to be able to reach out to applications outside the mainframe and wait for a reply. Many of these outside applications are housed in environments where MQ is a preferred way of ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic resizing of IMS buffers

Actually a dynamic management is only possible for IMS database buffers, but this would be helpful for a lot of other buffers as well in the case you have defined upper limits for these buffers to prevent a z/OS system from storage problems caused...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 4 Not under consideration

Delay the commit of an IMS synchronous program switch target transaction until the original transaction performs the commit

IMS synchronous program switch can be used to synchronously call an IMS transaction from a different IMS application. This allows you to reuse existing functionality within new IMS applications without implementing it again or without copying the ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Allow IMS to get non-contiguous space in ECSA to avoid abend U0717.

The customer has encountered U0717 abeend . (PMR 83164,695,760) Because of ECSA fragmentation it was failed to getmain for PSBW (set via CSAPSB= option) . In the customer's r environment , 4 IMS Full Function Online subsystems recycled every day w...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Network security credential propagation should have a parm for activation

We have a very high volume IMS environment, using IMS Connect. The Network Security Credential Propagation (NSCP) enhancement in IMS V15 will allow additional security information (up to 504 bytes) to flow in from the client side if all components...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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