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Message Queue Management

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Request ALTPCB output support ICON SENDRECV mode

For client who use SENDRECV interaction, it wait for IMS region response by ISRT IOPCB. However, when IMS region use ISRT ALTPCB to send message, the output message keep in HOLDQ and client need to use RESUME TPIPE to receive the response message....
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Delivered

DFSSQQRY - support for the message age in # of minutes.

IMS Queue Control Facility has RFE 54740 submitted by Banco Itau.The RFE 54740 indicates that the QCF AGE parameter in # of minutes is required.QCF is currently calling DFSSQQRY FUNC=QTYPE with the value of the QCF AGE parameter set to the MSGAGE ...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Delivered

Need some help from IMS to modify the command processor to scan actual existing destinations in IMS

IMS provided some support years ago to clear a flag which indicates output present ( and prevents TPIPE deletion ) when a DISPLAY TPIPE QCNT command is issued in IMS, and QCF was enhanced to issue the command.Unfortunately, this would never work, ...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Delivered

IMS should support a QBUFMAX specification greater than 9999.

Currently the maximum value that can be specified for the QBUFMAX Startup parameter (maximum number of message queue buffers for the queue pool) is 9999. Customer could have the need to both limit the maximum number of Buffers by coding QBUFMAX, t...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 4 Delivered

Enhance IMS JMS API or IMS JDR resource adapter for easier processing of synchronous program switch messages

IMS JMS API actually does not support comfortable methods to create field-based callout and callout response messages for synchronous program switch. IMS JDR resource adapter's class IOMessage already provides such a functionality. Please enable I...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 6 Delivered

IMS and CQS should manage the case when MSGQ Messages could be found to be "in-doubt" at IMS CQS Restart + Structure Rebuild

There is a case, as per original Shared Queues design, when even during a Warm (not Cold) Restart MSGQ Messages can be found to be "in-doubt" so that CQS as a safe and conservative choice move them to the Cold Queue, where they would remain foreve...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 0 Delivered

Message lost after TPIPE WAIT-H and ERE

TPIPE goes into a WAIT-H. /DIS TMEM supermember TPIPE ALL after an IMS ERE shows that the qcnt has gone down by one. The ERE resulted in a lost message, which should not be lost.
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Delivered