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IMS Transaction Manager

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PWFI Regions Applications should not be terminated when processing a OLC PREPARE.

Currently when the OLC PREPARE Online Change phase is run all PWFI Regions are posted off the SUBQ6 and the Application Programs are terminated through SCQC . That change appears was introduced by old Apars PL55214 on DFSICLV0 for type1 /MODIFY Co...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Allow IMS to get non-contiguous space in ECSA to avoid abend U0717.

The customer has encountered U0717 abeend . (PMR 83164,695,760) Because of ECSA fragmentation it was failed to getmain for PSBW (set via CSAPSB= option) . In the customer's r environment , 4 IMS Full Function Online subsystems recycled every day w...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 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...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Improving the queue manager large message processing

In a shared queue enviroment and we would like to request an improvement in QUEUE MANAGER MESSAGE RETRIEVE process to use less QBUF for large messages.This was suggested after RFE 60792 was declined.
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

External BPE Trace to support SMS MGMTCLAS

IMS Connect External BPE trace supports the SMS STORCLAS parameter but not the MGMTCLAS parameter.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Option to have EXPRTIME produce WTO

Provide an option to write out a WTO when a transaction expires due to EXPRTIME, in addition to the current option of whether to take a U0243 ABEND or not. We also want to be able to catch all transactions that expire, not just the ones executed v...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

Support Conversational Transactions on ISC TCP/IP for CICS - (Synchronous)

IMS already support asynchronous ISC TCP/IP for CICS and we would like to use this kind of connections for conversational transactions (synchronous). With this we will change our comunication between IMS and CICS from APPC SNA to TCP/IP.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect support for IMS metadata queries and IMS commands / IMS metadata query and IMS command response in JSON format

Most of the new applications are web-based nowadays. The easiest way to process data in web-based applications is to receive and send the data in JSON format and transform JSON data into JavaScript objects. That is why z/OS Connect uses JSON inste...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

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%...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

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