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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

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...
5 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / All components 0 Under review

Add extensionpoints for test case project

We are using "IMS Transaction Test Case Project" as a tool to submit an IMS-transaction for debug. As today every developer needs to manually add testdata, What we suggest is an extensionpoint (i.e. MenuManager in IBM Developer for Z) that let us ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

JAVA NEW FUNCTION TO ENABLE USERS TO OVERRIDE DATABASENAME TO CHANGE THE CONNECTION

In order to override a PSBNAME to change the connection, an application would use the HybridDataSource class that allows the parameter of a IMSConnectionSpec to set a new databaseName. If a connection has been obtained previously, however, this do...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 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.
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future 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 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

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

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

Option to generate ALTER DDL and save them in z/OS PDS member

Hi, I have imported a database from IMS Catalog to my local project in IMS Explorer. I have made some changes to it. To generate the ALTER DDL statements, I have to use "Submit changes to IMS" to generate ALTER DDL statements for the changes I hav...
about 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration