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Status Future consideration
Workspace IMS Transaction Manager
Categories Open Access TM
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 20, 2022

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Supporting the OTMA protocol with the FES Exit

This would be useful for making an asynchronous outbound, calling external systems like cloud without the risk of queues on IMS or even hold IMS resources. It would be a benefit for clients who needs to make a connection with external systems. We imagine something similar to the Front-End-Switch exit, where a transaction A arriving via OTMA would send a message via OTMA using Resume TPIPE to an external system, and then Receive an answer with send only via OTMA. After that IMS could answer to the same client which sent the transaction A, or start a transaction B that would answer the client. So we need something to correlate the client which called the first transaction with the answer from the external system.
Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 31, 2022
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    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.

    After reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, our decision is to add this item to our backlog. Items in our backlog are expected to be delivered within the next 18 months. We reserve the right to re-prioritize our backlog items as new requests come in. This helps ensure that we are constantly focused on providing the best value to all of our clients.

    Have a great day!

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