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IMS Transaction Manager

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Include LOGSTR parameter in the RACROUTE REQUEST for IMS commands.

IMS command RACROUTE requests apparently lack the LOGSTR parameter. Change IMS command RACROUTE requests to include the LOGSTR parameter.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

New fields other Dependent_Region.External_Subsystem_Calls, one for DB2 and One for MQ.

We ask to create two additional fields other Dependent_Region. External_Subsystem_Calls ( all external call), one that contains call to the DB2 subsystem and other that contains calls to the MQ subsystem.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Transaction Expiry to remove ABEND 0243

IMS Should be able to test message at GU to the IOPCB for transaction expiry, and send only an 'expired' message back without taking a U0243 abend.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Originating region information and recovery token needed for express messages

For express messages, the recovery token and PST number are needed in the 35 log record for diagnostic and reporting purposes. Without this information there is currently no way with only log records to associate the express message with the non-m...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow IMS to regenerate the message DFS996I without needing to restart it.

IMS WTOR message DFS996I *IMS READY* is normally outstandingto provide operator communication with the IMS region. The customer deleted by mistake the IMS message DFS996I so it had to restart the IMS in order to recover the control (please see als...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Option to turn off checkpointing for GSAM files

Currently, IMS sets the DS1CPOIT flag in the Format-1 DSCB for all GSAM files used by an IMS program, such as a BMP. This flag is left on regardless of whether the program terminates normally or not, leading to many thousands of checkpoint files l...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Need a UTC time added to IMS log records X'37', X'38', and X'5612'

We need a UTC time added to log records X'37', X'38', and X'5612' in order to avoid problems with OMEGAMON IMS RTA computing response times during the time change (Spring-forward and Fall-back).
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

OTMA Flood Protection should allow use of all available private storage

IMS OTMA flood protection limit maximum is 9,999 messages. We have much more extended private defined in our system and should be able to take advantage of however much extended private we would like before going into flood protection.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS emergency restart

IMS emergency restart should be able to handle the situation where IMS is shutdown ( creating a restart checkpoint ), the cold-started, but cold-start abends before taking any checkpoint. At present IMS emergency restart cannot process across a fa...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide granularity for activating RRS

At present RRS can only be activiated via the RRS paremeter in the IMS Control region. The RRS overhead is excessive, so we need the ability to turn it on as and when needed, preferably at the individual transaction level.
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

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