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IMS Transaction Manager

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Display or messages to monitoring the available private storage

We think it would be very useful to have messages or displays to monitor the available private storage (below the line, above the line and above the bar). In other products have message or displays to monitor the private storage: - In MQ we have m...
10 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

IMS Connect option to close sessions with a FIN at shutdown

At an IMS Connect Shutdown, IMS Connect stops listening on the ports and closes the TCP/IP communication. It is not closing each session and sending a FIN to the front-end devices. we would like a parameter or option that will perform the "clean"...
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

IMS pools status mesages in IMS JOBLOG

Hi, We believe it would be beneficial to have messages in the IMS joblog for the various IMS pools available (CBT, HIOP, LUMP, etc.) that provide information about their status and health, possibly including storage thresholds. The purpose of this...
7 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

IMS Resource AdaptJava com.ibm.ims.connect.OutputMessage should contain LPAR (SMF ID ) and IMS ID that executed the transaction er

Dear IBM Team, We are currently migrating a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). Throughout this process, we have relied on the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 across numerous applic...
7 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager 0 Under review

Modification to the TLIM= parameter in message regions to include the flexibility to include PSEUDO abends.

When an IMS message region starts, and the application requires it, it occupies a slot in the Linkage Index Allocation Table. If an abend occurs—whether pseudo or otherwise—and the application (or, in our case, vendor software) does not perform pr...
9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review