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IMS System Services

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Allow a Global Transaction to be spread across multiple IMS Connect and IMS Control region on different LPAR.

Currently a distributed two-phase commit global transaction that involves IMS Connect has the restriction that IMS Connect and IMS have to be on the same LPAR. To clarify this restriction, IMS Connect and the IMS that receives the input msg must b...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 5 Delivered

Cleanup of Disconnected OTMA Clients.

OTMA can have a maximum number of 255 clients after which new connections are rejected. The count includes also NOT DEFINED DISCONNECTED clients. Based on the actual design an IMS COLD start is needed to clean up those clients.This allows clients ...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Delivered

Add new IMS parameter to take regular structure checkpoint in Shared Queue environment

After IMS Shared Queue implementation Customer now have to issue the /CQCHKPT SHAREDQ STRUCTURE command to take structure checkpoints via automation process. It will be more safe to have this automated by IMS as in a situation where this command i...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Remove procedures IRZB64E and IRZB64D from IRZPWSIO API in a future version

Tododay the procedures IRZB64E and IRZB64D from IRZPWSIO API are called from PLI-code generated through RDz xsebatch. These procedures are used to encode/decode base64Binary data in a SGW-enterprise web service environment. The next version of PLI...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Delivered

Change cache algorithm to manage XML-converters in ICON

The ICON parameter MAXCVRT to set cache size of XML-converters is fine. What is not optimal is the algorithm used to unload/load XML-converters if the cache is full. current algorithm: Due to some discussions with IBM employees the less used conve...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

IMS Repository support for automatic export

Automatic export to a repository is not supported. We are requesting that IMS Repository provides automatic export capability currently available with DRD. We are dependent on the automatic export function at system checkpoint to trigger export fo...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 4 Delivered

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