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IMS Transaction Manager

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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

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

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