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IMS Transaction Manager

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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

IMS ACEE Refresh

The customer needed to activate logging option for an userid of an IMS region through UAUDIT RACF attribute. When they tried to deactivate logging (NOUAUDIT) but they didnt succeed, the user was still being audited. PMR 71957,228,631 deals with th...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 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

IMS Transactions and Large Attachments

More and more clinical artifacts, e.g. XRays, MRIs, and genetic info, etc. are being digitized. Today customers use a manual type of process to coordinate files for claims. It is desirable to have transactional integrity support for claim processi...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 3 Not under consideration

Optimize message notification and processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation

Current CQS message processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation should be looked at with regard to optimizing the XCF notification process and reducing the number of CF accesses.
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Optimize (MVS) logging for non-recoverable transactions

Currently an IMS transaction can be defined as non-recoverable which might improve performance because of the reduction in logging done by IMS. However, in a shared queue environment a large part of the logging is done by the MVS logger which is n...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

/DIS UOR should display the related PST information

The output of the /DIS UOR command should display at least the PST# but ideally also other associated information (e.g. MPP jobname, BMP jobname, etc. etc.) for each UOR.
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Add SYNC point call to DFSMSCE0

Enhance IMS and exit DFSMSCE0 to be called at transaction sync point and include fields (like flags to indicate sync point type and application program characteristics) to determine the status of application termination. Also, Include when IMS iss...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

SGW-Enterprise: Provide hooks for integration of data compression between ICON and IMS

Provide a hook at side of ICON and IMS to integrate custumor code to implement a data compression/uncompression in wsdl first scenario of SGW-enterprise solution. This hooks have been provided in generated XML-converter and MPP-template.
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 6 Not under consideration