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IMS Enterprise Suite

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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

Use the Java already installed on the system

Support particular versions of Java, such as 7.0 31bit, or 6.0.1 64bit, etc, and as such, allow the use of the instance of Java already installed in the system.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 3 Not under consideration

propagate end user identity in an SOA environment build on DataPower when calling IMS Connect to invoke IMS transactions

Need to propagate original network ID of end user through SOA ESB to IMS for logging / audit purpose. Original Network ID may be Active Directory, SAML, OAUTH, X.509, etc.. Passing through SOA ESB implemented with DataPower XI50b that ID may be tr...
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Dramatically reduce java memory used per WSDL deployed in SGW

SGW 2.1 as well as 2.2 use a lot of Java heap space for each deployed wsdl. This memory used per wsdl has to be dramatically reduced to be able to deploy more than 2000 wsdls in a single SGW instance. Most of the memory seems to be consumed due to...
over 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 3 Not under consideration

Add extensionpoints for test case project

We are using "IMS Transaction Test Case Project" as a tool to submit an IMS-transaction for debug. As today every developer needs to manually add testdata, What we suggest is an extensionpoint (i.e. MenuManager in IBM Developer for Z) that let us ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

JAVA NEW FUNCTION TO ENABLE USERS TO OVERRIDE DATABASENAME TO CHANGE THE CONNECTION

In order to override a PSBNAME to change the connection, an application would use the HybridDataSource class that allows the parameter of a IMSConnectionSpec to set a new databaseName. If a connection has been obtained previously, however, this do...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Option to generate ALTER DDL and save them in z/OS PDS member

Hi, I have imported a database from IMS Catalog to my local project in IMS Explorer. I have made some changes to it. To generate the ALTER DDL statements, I have to use "Submit changes to IMS" to generate ALTER DDL statements for the changes I hav...
about 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

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