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IMS Enterprise Suite

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IE4D: Edit transaction layout without re-importing data structure

In IE4D if I have to change the IMS transaction mapping but have changed the names of all the fields and provided descriptions on the original map then as far as I can see I have lost all that if I have to re-import the data structure. So what is ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

support outbound HTTP request (JSON/REST) via Mobile Feature Pack

Enhance the Mobile Feature Pack to support outbound JSON and RESTful calls as well as the current support for inbound calls. Preferably, it should also support outbound calls for generic HTTP(S).
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 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.
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 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

IMS Catalog Utility to include enhanced metadata.

The IMS Explorer facilitates the capture of more metadata for an IMS database than previously was stored in the IMS DBD. With Explorer, the extra metadata information from the COBOL copybooks can be captured and added to the DBD.The enhanced DBD c...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Delivered

ODBM and IMS DB Universal JDBC Driver Support for ODBM INIT STATUS GROUP at APSB time

Customer applications have problems when they tried to know the IMS db availability before to access to them from the java client application side, but unfortunately there is no interface in JDBC Type 4 mode. The DLICall Interface is not available...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

Manage default values being passed from z/OS Connect to IMS transactions if JSON tag is not passed in the service requests

Default values being passed from z/OS Connect to IMS transactions if JSON tag is not passed in the service requests could result in unwanted/unexpected character transformation. These transformations could result in not passing the correct data ty...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 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...
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 4 Delivered

Raise limit of OTMA descriptors

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

Allow overrides of WSDL

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