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    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.
    over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

    Allow IMS to regenerate the message DFS996I without needing to restart it.

    IMS WTOR message DFS996I *IMS READY* is normally outstandingto provide operator communication with the IMS region. The customer deleted by mistake the IMS message DFS996I so it had to restart the IMS in order to recover the control (please see als...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Option to turn off checkpointing for GSAM files

    Currently, IMS sets the DS1CPOIT flag in the Format-1 DSCB for all GSAM files used by an IMS program, such as a BMP. This flag is left on regardless of whether the program terminates normally or not, leading to many thousands of checkpoint files l...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Need a UTC time added to IMS log records X'37', X'38', and X'5612'

    We need a UTC time added to log records X'37', X'38', and X'5612' in order to avoid problems with OMEGAMON IMS RTA computing response times during the time change (Spring-forward and Fall-back).
    over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

    IMS emergency restart

    IMS emergency restart should be able to handle the situation where IMS is shutdown ( creating a restart checkpoint ), the cold-started, but cold-start abends before taking any checkpoint. At present IMS emergency restart cannot process across a fa...
    about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Incomplete display of subsystems in SPOC on /DIS SUBSYS ALL

    As descriped in the PMR, when in SPOC a "/DIS SUBSYS ALL" command is entered, not all information about a subsystem that uses a "<" as subsystem recognition character, is displayed. In IMS it is very well displayed.Example (SPOC):IMS3 1 CONN IM...
    over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Is a defect

    * selection for Dictionary API

    Require a name extraction API from the new Dictionary (replacement for ACBLIB).The current API allows extraction of IDBD and IPSB defined database and program specifications.In addition to this we require a API that allows all or some information ...
    over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Optimize message notification and processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation

    Current CQS message processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation should be looked at with regard to optimizing the XCF notification process and reducing the number of CF accesses.
    almost 13 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    Optimize (MVS) logging for non-recoverable transactions

    Currently an IMS transaction can be defined as non-recoverable which might improve performance because of the reduction in logging done by IMS. However, in a shared queue environment a large part of the logging is done by the MVS logger which is n...
    almost 13 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

    /DIS UOR should display the related PST information

    The output of the /DIS UOR command should display at least the PST# but ideally also other associated information (e.g. MPP jobname, BMP jobname, etc. etc.) for each UOR.
    almost 13 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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