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IMS Transaction Manager

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Make available the TMRA dependencies on a maven repository

Some clients cannot manually download dependencies or upload them to artifactory. For those clients like us, we would like a public Maven repository with the TMRA dependecies.
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

Add the socket descriptor as a parameter for the HWSAUTH0 exit

Users of our HWSAUTH0 exit routine need a socket-connection-based user authentication to conform to their company rules. To make it possible with HWSAUTH0 exit, we need in the HWSAUTH0 exit parameter list a new parameter where the socket descripto...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add "user" field to PARMBLK

TI has a usermod where we require a field in PARMBLK (PXPARMS) to chain one of our data areas. This usermod has existed for 30+ years. We use one of the "reserved" fullwords at the end of PXPARMS to store the address of this area. We use the last ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 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...
almost 9 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...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General 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...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 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.
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS client TMRA version in CEX log

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

Add a way to stop queueing for STOPed transactions (for transaction switching)

When a transactions is STOPped, if you try to call one directly (from a terminal ou from IMS Connect), your requested will be rejected and the request will not queue. But if you make the call to the STOPped transaction from another transaction usi...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration