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Explorer for Development

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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...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 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

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...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer - Security improvement

The userid/pswd fields are exposed in cleartext when looking at the network traffic using a trace.This can be a serious security exposure, depending on the business and if the user use the same userid/pswd in production and development environments.
about 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer for Mac

We need Mac support of IMS Explorer.
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Add symbolic variable support to IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer

Enhance IMS Explorer so Liberty type symbolic variables can be used as values in fields. For example (but not limited to) as value for an IMS datastore value in an Interaction Profile or a host name in a Connection Profile) This would facilitate t...
over 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 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...
over 7 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

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...
about 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration