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IMS Transaction Manager

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Parallel processing in a region while waiting for sycnhronous ICAL call response

We foresee increased Intention to use of IMS applications as consumers of web services. With the current ICAL design a dependent region will be occupied by a single transaction waiting for a response to a synchronous callout request. This is not a...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Trace parms should have option to be dynamically changed via IMS commands

Some problems may require a trace in order to see the problem details. Depending upon the required trace different trace parms may be required. In order to change the trace parms a subsystem recycle may be required requiring a service impact. In o...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

/STO TMEMBER to a SMQ BACKEND doesn't work

The command /STO TMEMBER to SMQ backend member doesn't work. If you do a display command you can see the status ‘STOPPED' in the SMQ backend but the backend member continues accepting traffic. This command works correctly on the frontend OTMA member.
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Improve REASON CODE for msg DFS074 to clarify diagnostic

When segment of input message is greater than LGMSG queue buffer the DFS074 message should be issued with a specific reason code for this situation.
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 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

Add details to the message DFS2082 RESPONSE MODE TRANSACTION TERMINATED WITHOUT REPLY

The IMS message ?DFS2082 RESPONSE MODE TRANSACTION TERMINATED WITHOUT REPLY? is sent when a transaction defined a 'response mode' has not generated a reply. So, to avoid keeping the terminal waiting for an answer the IMS sends this message when th...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 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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