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IMS Enterprise Suite

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ZConnect IMS Mobile Feature Pack to support passing password/passticket to IMS

Allow the IMS Mobile Feature Pack to pass the password/passticket to IMS. This will allow a further authentication/check on the user on the IMS side.
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 3 Delivered

RFE for IMS Explorer to remove requirement for Admin rights during installation

IMS Explorer installation currently requires Administrator access on the machine where it is being installed. Some companies may have locked down Admin rights on employees' machines, thus preventing them from being able to install and use IMS Expl...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

Make it possible to create filter for transactions and databases

Accessing IMS resources thru IMS Admin Explorer for Administrators result in retrieving all existing resources defined.If it would be possible to define a filter that can be used to retrieve only parts of the defined system resources, the response...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 4 Delivered

IMS Connect JAVA API Support on Linux etc.

IES docs for JAVA API for IMCON indicates that support is for z/OS and Widows only. We need this to be supported on other OS such as Linux or anything else where JAVA can be used.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 0 Delivered

Allow overrides of WSDL

Allow for overriding the destination in the WSDL and overriding the program being used as the converter.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Raise limit of OTMA descriptors

Raise the limitation of ~255 OTMA descriptors to far higher
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

logs should be written in the system default code page

SOAP Gateway should write all logs in the system default code page.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Provide example JCL to compile and link the converter module

Provide example JCL to compile and link the converter module in the manual and in a SAMPLIB dataset installed with the product.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 0 Delivered

Request for Unit Test Case of importing field values

It would be more user-friendly if we can import filed values by importing a sequential file for multiple test transaction messages and execute the multiple transaction messages with one go.
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

SOAP Gateway error handling

The SOAP gateway is not handling error states consistent with other mainframe products, which typically produce a single error message when the bad state occurred or changed and a single informational message when the error state has been resolved...
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered