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IMS Transaction Manager

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IMS log record to record internal ROLB

When IMS receives a deadlock response from Db2 for a Normal call fir a non-message driven BMP it does an internal ROLB call.This is the correct thing to do.But there is no indication that IMS did this call.There are no 56xx or 67xx log records. Th...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

JWT Token Authentication Support for IMS Connect, TM RA and ICAL

We would like to use JWT (JSON Web Token) as the only method to authenticate against IMS Connect. Similar to what Network Security credential propagation support offers today, but more advanced and specific to JWT. IMS TM RA for inbound should pro...
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

PWFI to be kept in the program is the same

A PWFI region is waiting for a new message for the transaction ONE. Actually, when another transaction code (TWO) needs the region, ONE receive the Status code QC, all the environment is offloaded. The environment of TWO is load. If TWO is associa...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

JWT Token Authentication Support for IMS Connect and TM RA

The general trend for Employee/application authentication at TD is to utilize Ping Federation (JWT token authentication) in which case an application no longer knows the ACF2 password of a user but rather deals with tokens returned from PingFed (J...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Adjust program mask to Java expectations around IMS calls to Java

When control is "in IMS" and an exception takes place, LE terminates the enclave with a U4036-1 without any recovery attempts as would normally be the case. Specifically, when IMS calls Java, the program mask should be as expected by Java--that is...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

IMS support for OSGi Framework

IMS should support OSGi Framework within IMS Regions (applications)
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Request for a new function to control message rescheduling with deadlock case

We need a new function which enable us to cancel message rescheduling in a case of U0777 abend in an IFP region. When a U0777 occurs, an IFP region ALWAYS reschedules the message. Sometimes this specification leads to repeating U0777s if 3 or more...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically increase the queue block, long and short message queue datasets

There should be a possibillity to switch the queue block, long and short message queue datasets to a bigger pre allocated DS without shutting down IMS.I could imagine to issue the switch via command similar to the 'SWITCH xxx' command. The command...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

field containing CVTSNAME in log record x'56FA'

we need a new field in record x'56FA'.this field should contain value CVTSNAME (euqal to field ST4500_OSNAME in record x'4500')
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Transaction and Timestamp for COBOL DISPLAYS in IMS TM

Add IMS transaction code and timestamp (date and time) to output generated by COBOL DISPLAYs, similar to the CICS environment. When a COBOL DISPLAY is invoked in the CICS environment, the data passed to the DISPLAY command is prefxed on output to ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Not under consideration

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