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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS Transaction Manager
Categories General TM
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 27, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

IMS Connect needs to retry automatic reconnection to IMS

Whenever IMS Connect disconnects from IMS due to some external issue it doesn´t automatically reconnect back and it generates the error message DFS5386I. We need a solution to IMS Connect to quickly reconnect to IMS and avoid system unavailability.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 12, 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. IMS Connect retry up to 200 times before terminating the connection to XCF.
    IMS Connect issues HWSO1120W and HWSD0286I which are both error messages related to the XCF error. IMS issues DFS5386I which is a normal message indicating that ICON disconnected.

    Since we already retry the transmission to XCF 200 times automatically, it does not make sense to enhance ICON to immediately attempt to restart the datastore connection. You could trigger off of any of the messages above to attempt to restore the connection to XCF.

    The connection to XCF can be restored using the STARTDS command (or the equivalent UPDATE IMSCON TYPE(DATASTORE) type-2 command). This was caused by XCF defect and this has been fixed. The likelihood of this issue occurring again is very low.

    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
    IMS Offering Manager
    swetha.sridharan@ibm.com

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