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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...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

New type-2 update/query cmd support for LOGSTR

Add command support for the LOGSTR parameter in IMS PROCLIB member DFSYDT.. that is used to specify the behaviour on how IMS will share the NSCP information with RACF. Today it's difficult to verify the content of LOGSTR and the installation can o...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

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.
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 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...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Reports without the use of Cognos

FTM for ACH - Reporting capabilities should be a flexible solution so that the client is not required to use Cognos to produce reports
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

IMS Connect needs to retry automatic reconnection to IMS

Whenever IMS Connect disconnects from IMS due to some external issue it doesn´t automatically reconnect back and it generates the error message DFS5386I. We need a solution to IMS Connect to quickly reconnect to IMS and avoid system unavailability.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS

When you want to serialize temporarily a transaction, you can for example change the parlim of the transaction and set it to "none"To do that, you have to enter the following command :/[Deleted] PARLIM 65535 TO TRAN xxxThis is not "natural"Could t...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Reduce workload of page fix of IMS DRA FP buffers

We use IMS V13. We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS to replicate DEDB updates from Main system to Stand-In system and vice versa. We will use bi-directional replication while Stand-In system is providing services. Apply server u...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Message-driven scheduling of IMS BMP/JBP regions

Actually IMS allows no efficient processing of bulk workloads that are hitting the system at unpredictable points in time. When houndreds or thousands of messages for a specific IMS program have to be processed at a point in time batch processing ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration