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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 31, 2017

Reuse of DB2 connections and DB2 prepared statements in IMS JMP regions

Java applications running in an IMS JMP region have to reestablish the DB2 connection for each input message they process. Because of this prepared statements also cannot be reused when processing the next input message. They have to be prepared again. This causes a overhead and costs performance. Besides this a Java developer who is new to IMS will not understand what is happening.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jan 24, 2019

    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.

    At this time, after further review this request for enhancement, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting RFE ID 100326 is because given our current priorities we cannot in good faith get to this within 18 months from the date that it is being opened. We value the required requirement and we will keep consider if there are more customer interest and priority changed. You are also welcome to resubmit this RFE at a later date and we will reconsider.

    If you have any further question, please contact us.

    Thank you!
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
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    Jan 23, 2019

    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.

    At this time, after further review this request for enhancement, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting RFE ID 69662 is because given our current priorities we cannot in good faith get to this within 18 months from the date that it is being opened. We value the required requirement and we will keep consider if there are more customer interest and priority changed. You are also welcome to resubmit this RFE at a later date and we will reconsider.

    If you have any further question, please contact us.

    Thank you!
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
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    Feb 14, 2017

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Analytics Platform
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS Transaction Manager
    Component - Application Enablement
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC