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IMS Transaction Manager

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RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

TM RA support for SEND_ONLY with ACK

In the SEND_ONLY scenario without ACK, IMS input messages are lost when the IMS transaction is stopped. There is no notification (SEND_ONLY without ACK). Unlike IMS Connect API, IMS TM Resource Adapter does not support the SEND_ONLY protocol with ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Security Identity propagation from Websphere to IMS

Hi, we need to have the possibility to propagate the identity principal from WebSphere applicaiton server/Liberty on open side to IMS transaction call using IMS Connector. Similar to what already is permitted with CTG. Goal is to permit that the s...
5 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

PROCLIM cputime with a higher degree of accuracy

In case of non-FP transaction, PROCLIM cputime parameter must be specified in seconds. But, if cpu resources are very limited, clients wants to specify it more accurate like hundreds of seconds.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

support for multiple MQ systems in OTMA destination descriptor TYPE=MQSERIES

For high availabity reasons we have configured 2 production lines in the same sysplex:CEC01-LPAR01-IMS01-MQ01CEC02-LPAR02-IMS02-MQ02Both lines are coupled by various product features.I1) IMS01 and IMS02 use the same IMS shared message queueI2) IMS...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

Make parm ISSUE681=xx also available in an IMS/DC environment

Hi, Option ISSUE681=xx - which specifies the number of DFS681I messages per second within a batch or BMP region - is only available in a IMS DB/DC environment. Due to massive checkpoints in our IMS/DC system, we regularly experienced delays on IMS...
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

Enhancement to modify the PWFI parameter without restarting the region

Actually, when we want to made some operation on DB2, we have to change the PWFI Status to NO in order to remove the active THREAD and not to keep it. For changing the PWFI status, we have to restart the region. Is it possible to remove this resta...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Today IMS can startup its CSL Stasks of SCI,OM,RM; extend to startup CQS(for RM) and ODBM

Today IMS via its DFSDFxxx member allows its CSL address spaces (SCI/OM/RM) to be started by the IMS Control region using: SCIPROC=,OMPROC=,RMPROC=. However, our CSL setup for RM requires a 'non-shared Queues' CQS to be started, if the CQS is not...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Network security credential propagation should have a parm for activation

We have a very high volume IMS environment, using IMS Connect. The Network Security Credential Propagation (NSCP) enhancement in IMS V15 will allow additional security information (up to 504 bytes) to flow in from the client side if all components...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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