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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS System Services
Categories System Management
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 13, 2019

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Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.
Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to process some of the Central Bank operations faced the fact that in a SQ Environment in fact there is no a direct, easy and online way to know which IMS Member of the Plex processed the input messages for a specific Transaction, and how many.
Some of the persons involved in the implementation, having no or limited knowledge of the legacy non-SQ IMS Environment, supposed the ENQCT counter showed by the /DIS TRAN Command would show how many message was processed by the IMS replying to the Command.
It indeed appears that a way to online verify how many Transactions have been processed by a single IMS Member of a IMSPlex was something that could have been somehow "missed" when SQ were initially introduced....
We suppose that by i.e. introducing a new specific field in SMB that would keep track of the number of Transactions processed by the specific IMS Member, and that could be displayed either via a new keyword of the /DIS TRAN Command or only through the new QUERY TRAN Type 2 Command, could be an option.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 25, 2019

    Hi ,

    Thank you for your interest in keeping IMS a vital and successful product. Software development has continuously evolved during IMS's lifetime, and so has IMS itself. We have kept pace with, adopted, and implemented many industry standard best practices within our organization, including Continuous Delivery, Design Thinking, and Agile.

    When choosing new features to add from the list of requirements in our backlog, we assess which will bring the most value to as many clients as possible and prioritize those.

    At this time, after reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, we have decided to reject it. We are currently focusing on delivering new IMS functions. Today, this information is available in log records and we have tools like TAW (Transaction Analysis Workbench for z/OS) that already gives this information - https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/transaction-analysis-workbench-for-z . Please do let us know if you have further questions.

    We appreciate your input to IMS, and we hope that you will continue to submit ideas for improvements as customer feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of IMS.

    Thank you.

    Sincerely
    Swetha Sridharan
    swetha.sridharan@ibm.com

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