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Status Not under consideration
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 2, 2013

Allow configurable transaction support for IMS and CICS Resource Adapter

Provide a way for consumers of IMS Connect and CICS resource adapters to specify whether the interaction with IMS or CICS should be included as part of the current transaction scope or not.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Transaction Gateway

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Transaction Gateway

  • Guest
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    Dec 3, 2014

    Such a change would break the JCA contract for JEE applications. The correct solution must be to design EJB method to the right level of granularity, with the right transactional attributes.

  • Guest
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    Sep 23, 2014

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - CICS Transaction Gateway
    Component - Runtime
    Operating system - Linux

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Application Servers
    Product - WebSphere Application Server
    Component - Runtime
    Operating system - Linux

  • Guest
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    Oct 6, 2013

    This requirement belongs with the CICS team, for CICS Transaction Gateway and the IMS team for IMS Connect, as they own these two products which would require changes to support this. It should be noted that this is already possible when using WOLA for calling CICS or IMS applications - and that includes when WAS and CICS/IMS are co-located on the same system and when WAS is running on a non-z/OS distributed system and using WOLA's remote mode support for calling CICS or IMS applications.