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IMS Transaction Manager

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Change/increase MAXSOC for IMS Connect dynamically

The total number of sockets that IMS Connect supports across all TCP/IP ports at the same time is set by the MAXSOC parameter in the TCPIP configuration statement of the IMS Connect configuration member. If the number of sockets reaches the maximu...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Reduce IMS ECSA Consumption when using DC Mon on busy systems.

When DC Monitor is started for the first time on a busy IMS system, we observe ECSA growth of several MB, which is not released when DC Monitor is stopped.
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 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

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

Reports without the use of Cognos

FTM for ACH - Reporting capabilities should be a flexible solution so that the client is not required to use Cognos to produce reports
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

IMS Connect needs to retry automatic reconnection to IMS

Whenever IMS Connect disconnects from IMS due to some external issue it doesn´t automatically reconnect back and it generates the error message DFS5386I. We need a solution to IMS Connect to quickly reconnect to IMS and avoid system unavailability.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Front End Switch is not supported for the IMS ISC over TCP/IP facility

Paul Lam of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in Toronto has indicated a need to have IMS using ISC over TCP/IP to support the Front End Switch Feature. In IMS Version 13 and CICS TS Version 5.1 this facility is not supported.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 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...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

reopen of ID: 109777

My understanding was that IBM was now going to work on developing a change to address ID: 109777 , RCT ID: 89883 , other ID: 105737 but have not seen any update to it regarding this statue change. I also added a new comment as base on further read...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

IMS

When you want to serialize temporarily a transaction, you can for example change the parlim of the transaction and set it to "none"To do that, you have to enter the following command :/[Deleted] PARLIM 65535 TO TRAN xxxThis is not "natural"Could t...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

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