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IMS Transaction Manager

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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/...
almost 11 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...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 4 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...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Add Parameter to AUTH Call to Suppress ICH408 Messages

Add a parameter to the AUTH call that suppresses ICH408 messages, especially in cases where authorization failures are expected. Conversely, supply a new type of AUTH call that suppresses the ICH408 messages.
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 7 Delivered

TM RA Connection Pooling Support for Synchronous Callout Responses

From the TM RA Traces one could see, that the IMSTCPIPAdapter classes does connect(), send(), close() for every IMS Synchronous Callout Response.Customer wants to have connection pooling also for the Callout Responses similar to what TM RA does fo...
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

Requirement for RACF 'LAST ACCESS' message after successful user sign on.

Requirement to return the users RACF 'LAST ACCESS' information (ICH70001I) after successful sign on to IMS.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Delivered

STOP OTMA Granularity

Please provide heightened IMS command capabilities to stop OTMA traffic by individual OTMA Client ID and/or TPIPE; specifically, we are looking for the ability to stop INBOUND traffic to IMS via OTMA by TMEMBER / TPIPE while allowing OUTBOUND OTMA...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Delivered

Command for programs on PWFI regions to be refreshed.

Programs that are loaded on a MPR which has the PWFI parameter set to YES are not refreshed till the program is unscheduled by operator command. No simple way to do it as MPR regions with PWFI set to YES not easily identified. Today, most of our d...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Delivered

OTMA to inform client when Resume Tpipe cancelled while waiting for delayed Ack - PI31424

When OTMA times out waiting for an Ack for CM-0 Resume Tpipe output the Resume Tpipe is cancelled without notifying the client. The subsequent deleyed Ack simply gets discarded leaving the client in a state of awaiting output from IMS but IMS does...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

OTMA with Conversation

Hello IBM, we use MQ-Bridge with Conversion-Transactions.But the conversion is not closed from remote, so the connection are hangig. GROUP/MEMBER XCF-STATUS USER-STATUS SECURITY TIB INPT DRUEXIT T/O TPCNT ACEEAGE MAXTP AMQP ACTIVE ACCEPT TRAFFIC C...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

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