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IMS Transaction Manager

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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...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with IMS Connect

IMS Connect need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY BALGRP shows decreasing value once BALGDEQD goes over x'80000000'.

The RFE was submitted by IMS L2 support on behalf of KYNDRYL NORWAY A S/DISPLAY BALGRP shows confusing values once the ENQ/DEQ numbers reach 999999999.There is a full word counter(BALGDEQD) in the BALG control block. It is incremented for every me...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Add support for message-driven JBP

Currently IMS Java batch programs can't be message-driven. This prevents the modernization of message-driven BMPs and new applications with this processing pattern to be implemented in Java or forces you to using MQ to queue the messages (if MQ is...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

JWT Token Authentication Support for IMS Connect, TM RA and ICAL

We would like to use JWT (JSON Web Token) as the only method to authenticate against IMS Connect. Similar to what Network Security credential propagation support offers today, but more advanced and specific to JWT. IMS TM RA for inbound should pro...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

DFSYDT suffix to be independant of the IMS Nucleus Suffix

We run multiple IMS environments on single LPAR's. Each IMS Environment has the same IMS Nucleus Suffix. We require different DFSYDT members for each environment as the descriptors defined for each environment are unique per IMS environment. We re...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

Improve CQS design to access IMS Logger Structure

Following the MVS System Logger's current design, reported by pmr 23734,228,631, the ASYNC logger calls to a CF Logger structure result in extra SRB schedule and processing for the logging explorers. Now that we are aware of this, if the logger ca...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Display transaction code in /DIS TMEMBER xxx TPIPE yyy

Display transaction code in /DIS TMEMBER xxx TPIPE yyy. The transaction code would be the last transaction that used that TPIPE.
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration

Expedite the IMS TPIPE cleanup

We would like to have the TPIPE clean up occuring more quickly and/or to have a possibility to command this action when we foundthe TPCNT growing quickly, instead to wait IMS take 3 checkcpointsto delete the TPIPES.
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

Reuse of DB2 prepared statements in IMS JBP (and BMP) regions

Java applications running in an IMS JBP (or BMP) region are not able to reuse DB2 prepared statements after doing a checkpoint call by using the Transaction.checkpoint() or the Transaction.checkpoint(SaveArea) method. If you try to reuse them you ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration