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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS Database Manager
Categories Application Development
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 1, 2015

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Setting DB2 Client Information from an IMS application

Provide an API for IMS applications to make it possible to provide client information to DB2. This requires modification to IMS ESAF and DB2 IMS Attachment API to actually pass client info. This would require a change to the IMS ESAF and DB2 Signon API, letting DFSLI000 accept a call with client information which is then transferred to DB2 like the RRSAF SET_CLIENT_ID. The API could be designed the same way as is done for RRSAF. An example of such a call could look like “CALL 'DFSLI000' USING SECLIDFN ACCT USER APPL WS CRTKN LONGNAME RETCODE REASCODE.” in Cobol.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 24, 2017

    Hi Lennart Henang,

    Thank you for your interest in keeping IMS a vital and successful product. Software development has continuously evolved during IMS's lifetime, and so has IMS itself. We have kept pace with, adopted, and implemented many industry standard best practices within our organization, including Continuous Delivery, Design Thinking, and Agile.

    When choosing new features to add from the list of requirements in our backlog, we assess which will bring the most value to as many clients as possible and prioritize those.

    At this time, after reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting RFE 68954 is because given our current priorities we cannot in good faith get to this within 18 months. You are welcome to resubmit this RFE at a later date and we will reconsider.

    Thank you.

    Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 3, 2016

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Information management
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS Database Manager
    Component - Application Development
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Other

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Information management
    Product family - DB2 for z/OS
    Product - DB2 for z/OS
    Component - Installation - Migration
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Other

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 2, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Information management
    Product family - DB2 for z/OS
    Product - DB2 for z/OS
    Component - Installation - Migration
    Operating system - IBM z/OS

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS

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