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IMS Transaction Manager

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Make available the TMRA dependencies on a maven repository

Some clients cannot manually download dependencies or upload them to artifactory. For those clients like us, we would like a public Maven repository with the TMRA dependecies.
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Add the socket descriptor as a parameter for the HWSAUTH0 exit

Users of our HWSAUTH0 exit routine need a socket-connection-based user authentication to conform to their company rules. To make it possible with HWSAUTH0 exit, we need in the HWSAUTH0 exit parameter list a new parameter where the socket descripto...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add "user" field to PARMBLK

TI has a usermod where we require a field in PARMBLK (PXPARMS) to chain one of our data areas. This usermod has existed for 30+ years. We use one of the "reserved" fullwords at the end of PXPARMS to store the address of this area. We use the last ...
12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Add a way to stop queueing for STOPed transactions (for transaction switching)

When a transactions is STOPped, if you try to call one directly (from a terminal ou from IMS Connect), your requested will be rejected and the request will not queue. But if you make the call to the STOPped transaction from another transaction usi...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

For CHNG calls during OTMA transactions processing, used a cached ACEE

When OTMA transactions with OTMASEC=FULL make a CHNG call to another transaction, IMS creates a new ACEE in the MPP. There is already an ACEE for the USERID of the transactions in the IMS Control Region. IMS should use that existing cached ACEE (o...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Customer would like to have DataPower support for resume Tpipe. Have Front side Handler for ICON (Resume Tpipe support)

Customer applications are using ISRT ALTPCB and Datapower only supports ICAL and customers have to revise applications. It is a bottleneck to deploy Datapower to customers . It would be awesome if Datapower can support Resume Tpipe and nothing wil...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement in SSM configuration member

When you have a lot of Subsystem (DB2, MQ), you have to manage SSM File in order to use one or multiple subsystem.If you define all your susbsytem in one member, you need to define security access for this subsystem (READ access at least). For sec...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Give customers the option to activate the LE Langage Environment per configuration in IMS-connect

We implemented our ims-connect exits in Cobol, so we had to initialize the LE environment in the init phase.As the assembler skill is shrinking in the company, we try to eliminate as far as possible self-written assembler routines It makes also se...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration