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IMS Enterprise Suite

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Edit segment attributes to change from fixed to variable length in IMS Explorer projects

I have imported a DEDB with fixed length segment in to my local project in IMS Explorer. I don't see a provision in "edit segment attributes" to make the fixed length segment to variable length.
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 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...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under 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...
over 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...
about 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

Support of the VIPA address

We use the IMS Enterprise Suite Version 3.1 SOAP Gateway on z/OS. When we send a command " iogmgmt -view -correlatorfile all" by a batch, we get the following error messages : IOGS0129E: Management Utility commands cannot be sent from a remote hos...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 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...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

IMS Connect Multiple TCP/IP Stack Support

IMS Connect is not able to connect to multiple TCP/IP stacks and because of this we are actually using the IMS Explorer only on our system programmers test environment – otherwise we would have to setup additional IMS Connects on our customers LPA...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 3 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer should interface with RDz RSE Remote System Explorer

When using IMS Explorer, if no z/OS FTP server is available, the way to import / export IMS resources is to go through the local environment. In case a RDz RSE connection is available, it should be great that IMS Explorer should be able to use tha...
over 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 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...
about 8 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

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