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IMS Transaction Manager

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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

For CHNG calls during OTMA transactions processing, used a cached ACEE

When OTMA transactions with OTMASEC=FULL make a CHNG call to another transaction, IMS creates a new ACEE in the MPP. There is already an ACEE for the USERID of the transactions in the IMS Control Region. IMS should use that existing cached ACEE (o...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future 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...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 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...
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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

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.
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 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...
about 9 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. ...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Resume TPIPE auto and explicite acknowledgement support in CCI implementations of the IMS TM Resource Adapter

The IMS TM Resource Adapter supports two implementations: A message-driven bean (MDB) and a Common Client Interface (CCI) implementation. When using the CCI implementation currently the resume TPIPE auto option can't be used for callout message pr...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future 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 ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration