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IMS Transaction Manager

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IMS Transaction Manager : Output format of DFSILTA0

【Problem】Despite DFSILTA0 output format being changed, it seems there is no guide in the manual.We use IMS V13. (upgrade from V9 to V13 in 2016)Since V10, since the proc result of DFSILTA0 was now outputted in multiple lines, it wasn't possible to...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS/OTMA Trace improvements

Some IMS problems are intermittent and require follow-up actions in order to gather the required doc for diagnosis. An example of this is requiring an OTMA trace to discover improper processing. In a high availability, volume and performance envir...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Move DLMP/PSBC, PSBW and LUMC pools off ECSA

RFE #78091 is about moving EPCB and CSAPSB pool off ECSA to reduce ECSA usage of IMS. We would like to also have DLMP/PSBC, PSBW and LUMC pool moved off ECSA.
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Add SYNC point call to DFSMSCE0

Enhance IMS and exit DFSMSCE0 to be called at transaction sync point and include fields (like flags to indicate sync point type and application program characteristics) to determine the status of application termination. Also, Include when IMS iss...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

provide EXPRTIME feature for fastpath like available in full function

fastpath message are not expiring in the queue, will stay until processed. In some problem situations the messages will fill up the queue (max trans reached) and prevent other messages from being added to the queue. At this point we were having al...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

Add Parameter to AUTH Call to Supress ICH408 Messages

Add a parameter to the AUTH call that suppresses ICH408 messages, especially in cases where authorization failures are expected.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Support passing Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java

We would like to pass Network session ID and Network user ID using IMS Connect API for Java. Currently this is only supported using ROY IMS Connect clients or using IMS TM Resource Adapter. Our main IMS Connect client is written in Java and uses t...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

IMS Connect Recorder Trace on port number level

Provide the possibility to start an IMS Connect Recorder Trace for a specific port id.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS LOG56FA Field TPMGU=1 after a LOG08 created

In the record x'56FA' of the LOG, the field TPMGU=2 after the creation of a LOG08. Even if the region is in PWFI and that the LOG08 is created because of the PLCT. So we can't use the field TPMGU to count the number of messages processed.
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

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