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IMS Transaction Manager

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Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Expiration of Output Messages

Currently input messages to transactions can be expired with the use of EXPRTIME.Output messages have no such option to expire old messages. Having the option to expire old output messages, either globally or for specific Lterms or Tpipes, would b...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Not under consideration

PSB/DBD fallback using IMS catalog versioned objects

DBD/PSB objects fallback to use IMS catalog rather than PSBGEN/DBDGEN/catalog ACBGEN/IMPORT using backed up sources.
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 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

IMS client TMRA version in CEX log

We would like to have IMS client TMRA version in IMS connect CEX log.
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Give customers the option to activate the LE Langage Environment per configuration in IMS-connect

We implemented our ims-connect exits in Cobol, so we had to initialize the LE environment in the init phase.As the assembler skill is shrinking in the company, we try to eliminate as far as possible self-written assembler routines It makes also se...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically increasing Short message Queues

It is possible for an administrator to dynamically add page sets (which are basically message queues) to a running queue manager in WebSphere MQ (IBM product), or remove page sets from a running queue manager (except for page set zero). I was hopi...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

IMS display commands

When a dependent region cannot schedule a PSB due to a pool space failure, the IMS display commands ( such as /DIS A ) should identify which pool caused the schedule failure.This has already been done for EPCB pool but it would be useful for all t...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Parallel TPIPE support for IMS TM RA

Problem:Currently when defining an ActivationSpec for an IMS Callout MDB it is only possible to specify the same TPIPE once, although IMS V14 supports multiple Resume TPIPEs to a single TPIPE, which are then served in round robin fashion.So curren...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 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