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IMS Transaction Manager

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Enhance TMRA to get the name of the program performing a callout

APAR PH24630 added the IMS program name of the program performing a callout to the OTMA state header of the callout message. Please add a method to TMRA to get this information from the OTMA state header.
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Translate Authorization ID in IMS MPP

Translate Authorization ID into another before calling Stored Procedure in DB2
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

SPUFI-like DDL interface

As discussed during IMS managed ACB meeting, we would prefer to have SPUFI-like DDL interface instead of java based SQL Batch utility.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

kill transactions based on elapsed time

Provide a way for IMS to automatically timeout transactions based on the total time elapsed from the transaction first being queued.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

A new IMS Installation Exit routine for RACF pre-authorisation

We would like to request the introduction of a new IMS Installation Exit routine that would get control when an IMS AUTH call is issued by an application, but prior to RACF being called (i.e. pre-authorization). The new exit point will need to pro...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 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

Passticket support for HWSSMPL1 (connect API)

HWSSMPL1 does not support passticket and we need passticket support for HWSSMPL1. One of our major application uses connect API which use HWSSMPL1 and we are looking at strengthening password using passphrase.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

New type-2 update/query cmd support for LOGSTR

Add command support for the LOGSTR parameter in IMS PROCLIB member DFSYDT.. that is used to specify the behaviour on how IMS will share the NSCP information with RACF. Today it's difficult to verify the content of LOGSTR and the installation can o...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Better management of IMS PGM name to Java class name mappings

For IMS Java programms (both Java batch and Java message processing programs) a mapping between IMS program names and Java class names must be provided in IMS PROCLIB member DFSJVMAP. Such a mapping within this member looks like this: IMSJAVPG=com...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 4 Not under consideration

Improve IMS OTMA resilience in periods of system slowdown.

OTMA storage utilization includes static storage for control blocks and variable storage for various buffers and working storage.The variable storage both varies in size and in duration of allocation, depending on phase of OTMA processing.System s...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration