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IMS Enterprise Suite

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SQL to DLI call translation view in hex

I'd like to ask for a product enhancement. On the “SQL to DL/I Call Translation” can you show the hex values? When someone is doing an insert or delete with a partially qualified key you can't tell if the SSA is using blanks or low values. I also ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 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...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Message layout by metadata class support and message field set- and get-method support for IMS Entprise Suite Connect API

The IMS Java Dependent Regions (JDR) Resource Adapter supports a simple way to specify the layout of input and output messages by a Java metadata class. Defining such a layout enables a Java transaction program to easily - get values from specific...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 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

IMS SOAP Gateway functionality on Liberty Profile

Implement the SOAP interface on the Liberty Profile server, instead of native Java.ie. like the new REST interface implementation in IMS Mobile
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Request for a feature in IMS to generate artifacts directly with a batch job

When you want to expose an application program as a service provider, you need Rational Developer for System z (RDz), which provides tooling for generating artifacts needed for IMS to provide and consume Web services.So you need another tool diffe...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 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...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 3 Not under consideration

Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

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