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Status Under review
Workspace IMS Transaction Manager
Categories Open Access TM
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 26, 2025

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Show end wait time for synchronous callouts in the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output

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IMS shows an end wait time for synchronous program switches in the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output. This is very helpful in some kinds of error situations. Although for synchronous callouts the same DL/I call is being used, the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output currently doesn't show an end wait time for synchronous callouts. Please add it. This would help to understand how long the wait could be, when the distributed application doesn't respond - which may not be easy to determine for an IMS sysprog or operator since the timeout value may be set by the application instead of by a global setting for a specific TPIPE configured with an OMTA descriptor. It may also help to understand whether an IMS application waits all the time for a response on a single callout or whether it is doing multiple callouts and waits again and again. At least some of the available IMS monitors also don't show this without having a call-level trace active. 

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