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IMS Transaction Manager

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Simplify the use of OTMA descriptors

PROCLIB member DFSYDTx follows the same rule as the ETO descriptor members DFSDSCMx using a one byte suffix. The value must match the SUFFIX= parameter of the IMSGEN system definition macro with the result that we can only create one DFSYDTx membe...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS output message flood control

IMS has already a flood control for input messages. This covers the most common cases of message flooding in IMS. Even if mass insertion of output messages is very unusual, it is as ciritical to the system stability as mass insertion of input mess...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Informatio...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

IMS AMS - Advanced Message Service

Implement IMS functionality to support MQ Series Advanced Message Services (AMS) for transactions using the IMS-bridge connection.IMS applications are already today able explore this functionality if the design is to use MQ explicit access to the ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate BMP checkpoint messages from an archive sysprint

Right now we are trying to eliminate all of our USERMODS in order to be in a more IBM standard way. We almost achivied this task but one of our USERMODS can not be eliminate. The USERMOD is the MI00012. This USERMOD gives you the option to skip wr...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

IMS Parallel ICAL calls

The ICAL call allows applications to synchronously call out to external applications. This requirement is to allow multiple synchronous callouts to be issued in parallel with the application waiting for replies when it has issued the last ICAL in ...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

ICAL Synchronous callout to MQ destination

Today we see an increasing demand from our IMS application developers to be able to reach out to applications outside the mainframe and wait for a reply. Many of these outside applications are housed in environments where MQ is a preferred way of ...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

MQSeries MQMD data available using an IMS INQY call.

If possible we prefer to connect our MQ Series clients using OTMA, since this solution is more scalable. To minimize allocation of IMS resources, we have made it possible to run these applications in an asyncronous way. Our challenge is to be able...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic resizing of IMS buffers

Actually a dynamic management is only possible for IMS database buffers, but this would be helpful for a lot of other buffers as well in the case you have defined upper limits for these buffers to prevent a z/OS system from storage problems caused...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 4 Not under consideration

Delay the commit of an IMS synchronous program switch target transaction until the original transaction performs the commit

IMS synchronous program switch can be used to synchronously call an IMS transaction from a different IMS application. This allows you to reuse existing functionality within new IMS applications without implementing it again or without copying the ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration