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IMS Enterprise Suite

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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

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

Support for Session ID caching in IMS Transaction Manager Resource Adaptor

We need IMS TM Resource Adapter to add support for TLS/SSL session reuse in order to reduce CPU consumption related to large numbers of full TLS/SSL handshakes. When the IMS TM RA uses TLS/SSL to protect its connections to IMS on z/OS, it appears ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 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

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration