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Explorer for Development

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Windows 10 support for IMS Explorer required

Up to now the IMS Explorer is only supported to Windows 7 and 8. We also need support to Windows 10 to administer the IMS catalog.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

Binary Literal Support in IMS JDBC V14 Driver

We Need IMS JDBC V14 driver to support BINARY Literal when we try to run SQL using WHERE clause that has LOW values(Binary Fields).
almost 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Delivered

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases.

IMS Explorer does not accept more than an 8 character password and does accept passphrases. Our corporate requirement for security passwords is a 10 character passphrase. We are unable to use the product without the 10 character passphrase.RACF an...
over 5 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 33 Delivered

Change IMS ABENDU0512 by display during the ODBA / ODBM COMMIT processing

Customer have to run many /DBRs every night to take ICs and run many DLIBATCHes and this command leads to have many ABENDU0200 in a ODBA / ODBM environment.
over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

IE4D : Defaulted Field Values

You can now setup Services so that all fields are either initialised (spaces/zeroes) or not (LOW-VALUES). When setting all Service fields to default to low values you can also default individual fields to spaces where you need to. But it is not ob...
over 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

IE4D: Edit transaction layout without re-importing data structure

In IE4D if I have to change the IMS transaction mapping but have changed the names of all the fields and provided descriptions on the original map then as far as I can see I have lost all that if I have to re-import the data structure. So what is ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

Request for Unit Test Case of importing field values

It would be more user-friendly if we can import filed values by importing a sequential file for multiple test transaction messages and execute the multiple transaction messages with one go.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

IMS Catalog Utility to include enhanced metadata.

The IMS Explorer facilitates the capture of more metadata for an IMS database than previously was stored in the IMS DBD. With Explorer, the extra metadata information from the COBOL copybooks can be captured and added to the DBD.The enhanced DBD c...
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

ODBM and IMS DB Universal JDBC Driver Support for ODBM INIT STATUS GROUP at APSB time

Customer applications have problems when they tried to know the IMS db availability before to access to them from the java client application side, but unfortunately there is no interface in JDBC Type 4 mode. The DLICall Interface is not available...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

RFE for IMS Explorer to remove requirement for Admin rights during installation

IMS Explorer installation currently requires Administrator access on the machine where it is being installed. Some companies may have locked down Admin rights on employees' machines, thus preventing them from being able to install and use IMS Expl...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

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