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IMS Enterprise Suite

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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...
about 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

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (IMS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
5 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / All components 0 Under review

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

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.
about 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Filenet F8 / ICC / CSS / ICN - to be made RMS-aware

FileNet suite of products (CPE, ICC, ICN, and CSS) needs to be Azure RMS-aware. The company is moving to content encrypt all data within the company. Therefore, the FileNet suite of products needs to be able to be RMS-aware to handle this encrypti...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Users getting a deletion notification when requested for a read receipt while sending email to shared mailbox

We wanted to know 1) How to disable the sending any read/deletion receipt to the end user via ICC? 2) Is it possible to mark an email as Read via ICC during processing? This can go as an acknowledgment /read receipt to the user that the message wa...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

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