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IMS Transaction Manager

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Supporting the OTMA protocol with the FES Exit

An important line of business of the Bank, Itau Home Banking (Internet Banking), will benefit greatly from this enhancement. Currently the Internet Banking uses SNA/3270 with the FES Exit to hold the terminal in SYSTEM (without holding IMS resourc...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

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almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS Recovery status when reading OLDS datasets

While IMS is in recovery/backout processing - we would like a message to be displayed when it is reading the IMS OLDS similiar to when it is reading the IMS SLDS to provide us confidence the recovery is moving along.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Define GPSB with EXPRESS=YES

To avoid PSBgen and ACBgen processes in an IMS/DC only environment when IOPCB's with EXPRESS=YES have to be defined.Customer uses of GPSB and, since GPSB are IMS generated and so to not require PSB/ACBgen, they are asking if GPSB capability could ...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

IMS TMRA Support to pass application name in IRM_APPL_NM field

Have the ability to pass the application ID in the IRM header so IMS Connect can validate the user's passticket using this field instead of the APPL parm in HWSCFGxx proclib member.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue 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 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 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...
over 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.
about 11 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 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration