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IMS Transaction Manager

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OTMA Front-End Switch

Our IMS client has following business requirement : DataPower ==> ICON8 ==> IMS A ==> ICON3 ==> IMS B ==> ICON3 ==> IMS A ==> ICON8 ==> DataPower We need the IMS front-end switch function so that the send-receive call from ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Resume TPIPE wait forever cancel timer for IMS Connect shutdown

IMS Connect resume TPIPE clients permanently listening on TPIPEs to retrieve sychronous / asynchronous callout request messages or undeliverable / re-routed output messages are currently blocking a normal IMS Connect shutdown, because IMS Connect ...
about 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 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

Function to expire a transaction during execution

The current transaction expiry feature for full function transactions uses the in-queue time to decide whether to process the transaction or not. Once the transaction starts executing there is the PROCLIM value to specify a CPU limit, but no oppor...
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Client sendrecv interaction want to receive ISRT ALTPCB output from IMS region

For client who use SENDRECV interaction, it wait for IMS region response by ISRT IOPCB. However, if region use ISRT ALTPCB to send message, the output meessage keep in HOLDQ and client need to use RESUME TPIPE to receive the response message.
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

ICON TM RA implement auto affinity for IMS Sync Callout Response

The docs say, that the IMS Callout Response needs to be sent to the originating IMS. It is very difficult to ensure this with Dynamic VIPA and 4 shared queues Members.Customer requests, that HWSJAVA0 IMS Connect exit sends the originating Datastor...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

"false" U0240

z/OS only allows one STIMER per task (TCB) so when an application program is setting his STIMER it negates the STIMER that IMS has already set and this could lead to an U0240 abend which is not a real one because the proclim has not been reached. ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 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

A short running IMS region for IMS TM customers

A TM only user can start a short running IMS region to quickly resolve external subsystem infight and in doubt units of work
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Expedite the OTMA ACEE cleanup

Some IMS customers have many cached OTMA ACEEs for RACF userids. Searching through hash synonym chains for OTMA ACEEs is using much CPU. The number of hash chains should be increased from the current 509. Also – if the ACEEs were chained in ascend...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

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