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IMS Enterprise Suite

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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.
over 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).
over 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 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 33 Delivered

IMS Explorer - Test case - MFA support

As moving to more secured environment we need MFA support when running a testcase in IMS explorer.
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

MFA support for Database Access in IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development

Hi, We have to enable MFA for ODBM access to meet the audit requirements at our company. Since it is the way forward for all the clients, it is a good idea to add MFA support ASAP. Thanks !!
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

Provide tooling to migrate zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts from one enviroment to another

Add support for packaging, deploying and/or replicating zConnect and IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts for IMS REST service configuration/implementation to different environments such as DEV,System Integration, Prod Acceptance, Prod and DR...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Delivered

IMS SOAP Gateway support of multiple endpoints.

Actually IMS SOAP Gateway doesn't support the specification of multiple PORT in a single WSDL file or better it is not able to dynamically identify the PORT information at runtime. The customer case was made by different WSDL:PORT specifications i...
over 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 2 Delivered

ZConnect IMS Mobile Feature Pack to support passing password/passticket to IMS

Allow the IMS Mobile Feature Pack to pass the password/passticket to IMS. This will allow a further authentication/check on the user on the IMS side.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 3 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 8 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 ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered