What's new in IMS Queue Control Facility

GI13-5317-02 - December 2025

Table 1. GI13-5317-02 updates
Description	Related APARs
Provide APPC/OTMA information in the ISPF panels to help you understand the settings for APPC and OTMA messages. The Messages Prefixes and Text Segments panel (IQCP13) is enhanced to show the following APPC/OTMA information: Commit mode of OTMA messages Conversation type of APPC messages Synchronization level of APPC and OTMA messages Support options to include or exclude the following message types for the BROWSE, LOAD, and UNLOAD functions: Commit mode of OTMA messages (COMMITMODE keyword) Conversation type of APPC messages (CONVTYPE keyword) Synchronization level of APPC and OTMA messages (SYNCLEVEL keyword) The following topics are added or updated: Control processing control statements EXCLUDE statement INCLUDE statement Browse processing FUNCTION BROWSE INCLUDE statement syntax Load processing FUNCTION LOAD INCLUDE statement syntax Unload selection criteria and processing FUNCTION UNLOAD INCLUDE statement syntax IMS Queue Control Facility Main Menu panel Messages Destinations (Detail) panel Messages IQC4182E, IQC4183E, and IQC4184E	PH68110

Table 2. GI13-5317-01 updates
Description	Related APARs
TSO client (ISPF interface) support for shared queues. You can use the ISPF interface to modify the queue space utilization notification parameters for shared queues. For instructions, see Using the TSO client (ISPF user interface). The following topics are updated or added: 2. Creating configuration members for message processing Preserving modified LQAREA/SQTHRESHOLD settings across IMS sessions Configuring queue overflow protection using the TSO client Using the TSO client (ISPF user interface) Message IQC4181E AIB reason codes X'E040' and X'F02C' Changes to the IMS Environment panel. This panel is modified to show the following information: The version number of the IMS subsystem in `vv.r.m` format. The APAR level of the QCF component.	PH65092

Table 3. GI13-5317-00 updates
Description	Related APARs
Provides the Queue Overflow Protection function for the shared-queues environment. You can enable queue overflow protection in shared-queues environments. See Message queue overflow protection in shared-queues environment.	N/A
Provides the Shared Queue Message Recovery function. By using the Shared Queue Message Recovery function of IMS Queue Control Facility in a shared queues environment, you can recover messages from the IMS logs without using the CQS log data set. See Recovering shared queue messages with Shared Queue Message Recovery function.	N/A