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Workspace IMS Transaction Manager
Categories General TM
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 14, 2019

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Don't stop PGM on abend

A lot of our jobs are running IMSBATCH only for GSAM feature (only DB2 access)
We are using GSAM for repositionning/restart capability
All these jobs are running with the same BMP which contains 10 input files (in01 to in10) and 20 output files (OUT01 to OUT20)
This avoid to have too many PSB directory entries (size of the IMS checkpoint)
The problem we have is that when a job abends, the PSB is stopped.
As most of our jobs are using the same BMP, each time this PSB is stopped, we have several U0456 abends because the PSB is stopped until our automation restart the PSB

Would it be possible to have a new PSB attribute : "don't stop this PSB on abend" ?

Thanks,
Regards,
Christophe

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 17, 2023
    It is our mission, within IMS, to deliver high quality code to our clients. Our goal is that this enhancement continues to help drive success for your company!

    I am excited to share with you that we have successfully delivered an enhancement that can help with the requested Idea IMSTM-I-43.

    This enhancement has been delivered via IMS service process:
    IMS 15 APAR[PTF]: PH41104[UI90217] - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH41104

    PH41104 enhances the DFSNDMX0 exit to support the non-message-driven (NMD) BMP regions operation. This allows system administrator to implement the DFSNDMX0 exit to specify what happens to transactions and programs when IMS calls the exit after an application program abends in a non-message-driven (NMD) BMP region. This enhancement provides a more consistent mechanism to control the transactions and the programs after an application abends, across all dependent region types.

    Please share your feedback with us as you implement this enhancement.

    Have a great day!
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 25, 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.

    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 RFE ID 128945 to our backlog . Items in our backlog are expected to be worked on in the next 18 months. We reserve the right to re-prioritize or reject 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. Thank you for your continuous support and interest in the IMS product.

    Have a great day!
    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 15, 2019

    Would be useful to also be able to choose whether the PSB stops for either a white list or a black list of ABEND codes.

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