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    Expiration Time (new features)

    We have started using Expiration Time in our environment. But as it is known Expiration Time only runs for primary transactions. This means half of our overall daily transactions. Also for our subsidiaries we have a separate Plex where almost 100%...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

    Allow IPCS VERBX commands in SDUMP reviews

    With some of the other fault analysis tools, system dumps can be futher reviewed using the same VERBX commands as can be done in IPCS. This allows for deeper manual investigation of a system dump
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    IMS Recovery status when reading OLDS datasets

    While IMS is in recovery/backout processing - we would like a message to be displayed when it is reading the IMS OLDS similiar to when it is reading the IMS SLDS to provide us confidence the recovery is moving along.
    almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

    Fault Analyzer Notification Exit

    In lieu of the REXX exits for notifications, provide a panel in the product to allow changes to be more easily implemented.
    almost 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    IMS TMRA Support to pass application name in IRM_APPL_NM field

    Have the ability to pass the application ID in the IRM header so IMS Connect can validate the user's passticket using this field instead of the APPL parm in HWSCFGxx proclib member.
    almost 11 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...
    over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Invoking File Manager from Fault Analyzer to get the initial positioning on a file that caused the abend

    wehn we analyze an abend using Fault Analyzer,We need to let the user know the following things when there is an abend.1. DD Name of the dataset which is causing the abend(in case of S0C7,S0C4...etc). 2. Take me to the record in the input file tha...
    about 11 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 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    /STO TMEMBER to a SMQ BACKEND doesn't work

    The command /STO TMEMBER to SMQ backend member doesn't work. If you do a display command you can see the status ‘STOPPED' in the SMQ backend but the backend member continues accepting traffic. This command works correctly on the frontend OTMA member.
    about 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Improve REASON CODE for msg DFS074 to clarify diagnostic

    When segment of input message is greater than LGMSG queue buffer the DFS074 message should be issued with a specific reason code for this situation.
    over 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

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