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Explorer for Development

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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 ...
over 1 year 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...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

Support submitting PSB changed definitions as DDL statements from IMS Explorer

Hi, IBM IMS Explorer does not have support to submit PSB changes as DDL statements to an IMS system. But it does for DBD definition changes.
over 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

IMS Explorer for Mac

We need Mac support of IMS Explorer.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under 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...
over 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.
over 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...
over 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...
about 6 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...
over 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...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

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