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IMS Enterprise Suite

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MFA support for Database Access in IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development

Hi, We have to enable MFA for ODBM access to meet the audit requirements at our company. Since it is the way forward for all the clients, it is a good idea to add MFA support ASAP. Thanks !!
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future 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

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

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...
over 7 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

IMS Gateway server name to link to liberty servername

When using E4D to connect to liberty server (with IMS mobile feature pack), first user provides a Name (label), Host name, and Port number to build a new IMS Gateway server. And then the user continues to build IMS Connection profiles, IMS interac...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 4 Not under consideration

Z/OS Connect/IMS Mobile Feature pack misc functionality requests

Request for the following functionality in Z/OS Connect/IMS Mobile feature pack: 1. Support service stub creation that will use a sample test data to be returned. 2. Set user defined service URI or remove ?action=invoke in service URI. 3. Service ...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the audit and debugging capability of IMS Enterprise Suite for Development

Request to have the following functionality added in the IMS Enterprise Suite for Development (specially as used in the ZConnect/IMS Mobile context): 1. View server log/trace data. 2. Store source COBOL copybook in registry as part of service meta...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack additional JSON feature.

Additional zconnect/IMS Mobile Feature pack JSON functionality: 1. Allow generated JSON field names to be lowercase_lowercase or smallCamelCase. 2. Add flat JSON input/output support to reflect TMRA generated object
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration