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IMS Transaction Manager

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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.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Clean up of OTMA orphaned YTIBS

A transaction started via a message switch under OTMA which replies to the IOPCB may still leave orphaned YTIB storage in IMS. This effectively causes a storage creep and requires an IMS recycle to fix.This request is that IMS should periodically ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 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...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 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 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

DFSSQQRY - support for the message age in # of minutes.

IMS Queue Control Facility has RFE 54740 submitted by Banco Itau.The RFE 54740 indicates that the QCF AGE parameter in # of minutes is required.QCF is currently calling DFSSQQRY FUNC=QTYPE with the value of the QCF AGE parameter set to the MSGAGE ...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Delivered

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...
almost 8 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...
about 8 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 ...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

Need some help from IMS to modify the command processor to scan actual existing destinations in IMS

IMS provided some support years ago to clear a flag which indicates output present ( and prevents TPIPE deletion ) when a DISPLAY TPIPE QCNT command is issued in IMS, and QCF was enhanced to issue the command.Unfortunately, this would never work, ...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 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...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

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