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IMS Transaction Manager

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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...
almost 2 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.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 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.
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

Translate Authorization ID in IMS MPP

Translate Authorization ID into another before calling Stored Procedure in DB2
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under 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.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 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 ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 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
almost 6 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...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access 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.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future 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.
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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