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IMS Enterprise Suite

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Add support for Aqua 3.3.

Currently, users who have migrated to IDz 16.0.3 are missing a critical piece of previously existing productivty tooling - the IMS Explorer integration. It would be beneficial to have the tooling updated to support the latest version before versio...
3 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

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.
about 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (IMS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / All components 0 Under review

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.
almost 2 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
about 8 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 segments.
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under 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 !!
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer - Test case - MFA support

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

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 !!
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

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