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Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Allow AAM to nullify EXPDT/RETPD

Files that do not get a DC and/or MC and are allocated with an expiration date cannot be deleted with normal BR14 MOD,DELETE or with IDCAMS DELETE without PURGE. This is the same functionality that this product replaces in our shop - Broadcom Allo...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Enable AAM to run in a passive mode

Enable AAM to be configured in such a way to see system events without interfering with intervention by other tools. This capability can be leveraged to refine AAM INCLUDE processing based on actual system workload before full activation.
7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Requirement on IMS for JOINs across non-hierarchical related tables

In our IMS ODBM PoC development, we need the ability to JOIN IMS sibling segments.    We realize that this incurs performance overhead, but we still need to have this SQL JOIN option with child-to-child segments as well as DBD-to-DBD seg...
over 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Rescheduling limitation of IMS deadlocked transactions

When an IMS transaction has a deadlock, it abends with an abend code U0777. The input message is placed back at the top of the message queue and the program is reschedulled. If the deadlock situation is repeated, the input message can get requeued...
about 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration