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IMS Transaction Manager

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ODBM IMS JDBC retrieve full IMS DB record without field definitions in DBD

In the customer DBD there is only the key field defined for the segments. When using the DL/I path interface, ODBM for performance reasons only returns the data for defined fields, not for the complete IMS DB record.The customer requests an enhanc...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 3 Delivered

Immediate Error Reply for not connected TPIPEs

Currently if a TPIPE is not connected/not in RESUME TPIPE status, IMS waits for the timeout and comes back with an error.In case WebSphere is shut down this leads to stalls in IMS and lots of error tickets/research.It would be better if IMS detect...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Allow IMS/MFS/OLP(operator logical pagin) to page beyond 4096 screens

Unknown to most, there currently is a limit of 4096 screens that can be returned (IOPCB type output) using MFS OLP feature (Operator Logical Paging). We are currently hitting this limit in our software at several large telco clients. The limit is/...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 3 Delivered

IMS should support a QBUFMAX specification greater than 9999.

Currently the maximum value that can be specified for the QBUFMAX Startup parameter (maximum number of message queue buffers for the queue pool) is 9999. Customer could have the need to both limit the maximum number of Buffers by coding QBUFMAX, t...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 4 Delivered

IMS Continuous Page enhancement

Please add a date column for each item added to the IMS Continuous page https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPH2_15.1.0/com.ibm.ims15.doc.rpg/ims_cd_functions.htm (similar to looking at hipers for products) and if possible RSU the PTF...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

TPIPE Checkpoint Statistics

We would like to have a statistics checkpoint record with TPIPE information, like the number of TPIPEs at the time of the checkpoint (global and per tmember), high water mark, etc.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

IMS Catalog Library Builder Utility DFS3LU00

With DFS3LU00 (with DBRSOR control statement) it is possible to create macro statements for DBD definitions except for GSAM. Expand utility to create GSAM macro statements too.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

IMS TM Resource Adapter support on WebSphere Liberty Profile

System : An online business application accessing IMS TMActor : Customer Description:Our application development team has a plan to run IMS TMRA application in WebSphere Liberty, however we do not have the formal support of WebSphere Liberty as IM...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

ICON SendOnly connection end without RC/RSN

FISC deployed the inter-banking SPEC to member bank base on ICON v2.x protocol.After migrated to IMS v13, some banks tested their socket program with ICON with FISC.They found when connection with SendOnly attribute assigned, ifduplicate clientID ...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

IMS Catalog with mACB. IMPORT Cmd extension

With the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command selective import is not possible. Extend the IMPORT command with an option with the possiblity to specify individual member for the Import. Similar the 'member online change' in a classic ACBLIB environ...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

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