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IMS Enterprise Suite

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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

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

Filenet F8 / ICC / CSS / ICN - to be made RMS-aware

FileNet suite of products (CPE, ICC, ICN, and CSS) needs to be Azure RMS-aware. The company is moving to content encrypt all data within the company. Therefore, the FileNet suite of products needs to be able to be RMS-aware to handle this encrypti...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 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...
almost 4 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

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 Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
about 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration