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Explorer for Development

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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

Edit segment attributes to change from fixed to variable length in IMS Explorer projects

I have imported a DEDB with fixed length segment in to my local project in IMS Explorer. I don't see a provision in "edit segment attributes" to make the fixed length segment to variable length.
about 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

IE4D : Changing transaction metadata removes service setup

Refer related ID : 90583 Changing the transaction metadata for a service can also remove much of the setup that has been done to a Service (default values, included/excluded fields), even if the names of the fields have not changed. Extract from e...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

Content Collector .msg archiving

IBM Content Collector treats MSG attachments as embedded message attachment and not the separate attachment (based on PR_ATTACH_METHOD attachment property value).We require MSG attachments to be treated as separate attachments resulting in separat...
over 5 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

Email attachments are not saving as separate documents while ingesting Emails through ICC 4.0.1.8

Case ID - TS000885259Product - IBM Content Collector 4.0.1.8 We are doing a mailbox ingestion where we use "EC Extract Attachments" in the taskroute . However if the attachment itself is an email /.msg file , the attachment is not getting saved as...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer should interface with RDz RSE Remote System Explorer

When using IMS Explorer, if no z/OS FTP server is available, the way to import / export IMS resources is to go through the local environment. In case a RDz RSE connection is available, it should be great that IMS Explorer should be able to use tha...
over 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

capability in specifying IMS connection pool properties

In traditional WAS, we could specify IMS connection pool properties, such as Minimum connections, Aged timeout, etc. However, with IMS enterprise suite explorer, when we build a zConnect service, we could not specify min connection, max connection...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Users getting a deletion notification when requested for a read receipt while sending email to shared mailbox

We wanted to know 1) How to disable the sending any read/deletion receipt to the end user via ICC? 2) Is it possible to mark an email as Read via ICC during processing? This can go as an acknowledgment /read receipt to the user that the message wa...
about 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the audit and debugging capability of IMS Enterprise Suite for Development

Request to have the following functionality added in the IMS Enterprise Suite for Development (specially as used in the ZConnect/IMS Mobile context): 1. View server log/trace data. 2. Store source COBOL copybook in registry as part of service meta...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

ODBM and IMS DB Universal JDBC Driver Support for INQY DBQUERY

Customer applications have problems when they tried to know the IMS db availability before to access to them from the java client application side, and they would have to use the INQY call, but unfortunately there is no interface in JDBC Type 4 mo...
about 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration