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IMS Transaction Manager

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Protocol message to inform Resume Tpipe client with /STO TMEM xxxx TPIPE yyyy is entered

We occasionally have to dequeue Tpipes, usually because a client process is not operational or running slowly. The deque process involves a /STO, /DEQ, /STA sequence of IMS commands. If the IMS Connect client is connected while this takes place, i...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Delivered

Provide a maximum number of userids in OTMA ACEE cache and replace the least recently used if the cache gets full.

The cache used for OTMA ACEEs should have a maximum limit. If the cache reaches its limit the least recently used userid should be replaced by the newest one.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Delivered

OTMA Reroute wastes CPU

We have recently replaced the use of the LU62 Adapter with IMS Connect and we have noticed a large increase in CQS CPU consumption. Our LU62 solution mostly involved the non-response mode protocol being used even though most of our applications ac...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Delivered

IMS Application Program Refresh

IMS WFI or Fast Path Drivers load the program modules once and to be able to refresh these modules IMS FP or MPP regions should be recycled. These may cause availability issues.
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

Parameter for initial number of OIM TCB SAPs

This was FITS MR0503125329.Currently the initial number of OIM TCB SAPs available at IMS startup is fixed. In our load testing, we have frequently gone into OIM selective dispatching (as indicated by DFS0769I messages).As we expand our use of OTMA...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

IBM IMS Transaction Manager Resource Adapter is not opening its TCP/IP sockets for SSL traffic with TCP_NODELAY

We require the option to be able to set tcpnodelay during SSL socket creation by the IMS Connect Adapter.Currently the Adapter only sets the tcpnodelay option for a nonSSL Socket. jar affected: imsico.jarClass: com.ibm.ims.ico.IMSTCPIPAdapterObjec...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Delivered

Improve description of the message DFS1297E

I would like to have in the IMS during display of message DFS1297, information about the transaction that is envolved with the error.
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 5 Delivered

Allow symlinks for LIBPATH in DFSJVMEV

Allow and support use of symlinks when defining the LIBPATH in DFSJVMEV.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Delivered

IMS OTMADESC MQFORMAT free field

To define an OTMADESC for MQSERIES, we have to give a MQFORMAT. I want to have a format of MQSTR but it is not in the list of the possible formats. MQFORMAT could be a free field so we could put the format we want.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Delivered

IMS and CQS should manage the case when MSGQ Messages could be found to be "in-doubt" at IMS CQS Restart + Structure Rebuild

There is a case, as per original Shared Queues design, when even during a Warm (not Cold) Restart MSGQ Messages can be found to be "in-doubt" so that CQS as a safe and conservative choice move them to the Cold Queue, where they would remain foreve...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Delivered

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