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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...
    9 days ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Submitted

    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...
    9 days ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Submitted

    start debugging in second program called by CALL

    It is not currently possible to configure the debugger to start in a program other than the first in the chain (as is possible with other debuggers) if the first program calls the second with CALL and not with EXEC CICS LINK. It would be very usef...
    7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / Linux 1 Planned for future release

    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.
    over 7 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
    almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under 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...
    about 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

    IMS Explorer - Test case - Passticket support

    As moving to more secured enironment we need Passticket/one-time-password support when running a testcase in IMS explorer.
    over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

    MFA Support to transfer and receive files thru FTP and z/OS connections

    Hi, We have a problem in transferring and receiving files thru FTP and z/OS connections in IMS Explorer when our mainframe systems are enabled with MFA. No support at all for FTP, but we can connect and transfer files using z/OS remote connection ...
    over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

    Passticket support for Database Access

    Hi, We use passticket for IMS SQL Batch utility. The passticket also supports MFA in batch utility. We would like to see the passticket usage in IMS Explorer for database connection, which simplifies our access for development systems. Thanks !!
    over 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

    advanced metadata objects with the JDBC driver outside of IMS Explorer

    Currently there only exists a way to export an artifact to supply the DLIDatabaseViews to the IMS Universal JDBC driver as the non-Catalog metadata source. The DLIDatabaseView does not support advanced metadataobjects like Segment Map Cases or Use...
    over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

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