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Status Not under consideration
Categories General ES
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 30, 2022

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 does not work.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Jan 31, 2023
    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 further review this request for enhancement, we have decided to reject it. The reason we are rejecting Idea IMSES-I-105 is because of priority and we do not have enough customer interest for this item at this time. We value the required requirement and we will keep consider if priority changed. You are also welcome to resubmit this Idea at a later date and we will reconsider.

    If you have any further question, please contact us.

    Thank you for your continued support with IMS.