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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...
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

ODBM and IMS DB Universal JDBC Driver Support for INQY DBQUERY

Customer applications have problems when they tried to know the IMS db availability before to access to them from the java client application side, and they would have to use the INQY call, but unfortunately there is no interface in JDBC Type 4 mo...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Support for Session ID caching in IMS Transaction Manager Resource Adaptor

We need IMS TM Resource Adapter to add support for TLS/SSL session reuse in order to reduce CPU consumption related to large numbers of full TLS/SSL handshakes. When the IMS TM RA uses TLS/SSL to protect its connections to IMS on z/OS, it appears ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

Import copybooks from z/OS – add ability to import structures with ++include statements

This support exists for importing from local project but not from z/OS. Our system has lots of these includes and we don't want to support 2 copies of our copy book members, one for our applications and one that would only be used for E4D.
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Array Support for copybook overlay

Several of our IMS database segments use dynamic arrays (number of elements imbedded into the structure). We need the capability of modeling these into the E4D tooling to access the data in those arrays.
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

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

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

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