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IMS Enterprise Suite

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Request for a feature in IMS to generate artifacts directly with a batch job

When you want to expose an application program as a service provider, you need Rational Developer for System z (RDz), which provides tooling for generating artifacts needed for IMS to provide and consume Web services.So you need another tool diffe...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 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

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 for Mac

We need Mac support of IMS Explorer.
over 6 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...
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

IMS SOAP Gateway does not account for running whilst IMS is inactive

If IMS SOAP Gateway is active, and the IMS system or datastore is shutdown, then IMS SOAP Gateway issues many repeated error messages until IMS is active again.In some cases this fills up the JES spool to the point that reactive measures are requi...
about 5 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 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

Support of the VIPA address

We use the IMS Enterprise Suite Version 3.1 SOAP Gateway on z/OS. When we send a command " iogmgmt -view -correlatorfile all" by a batch, we get the following error messages : IOGS0129E: Management Utility commands cannot be sent from a remote hos...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration