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Hi Robert,
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. We think it’s a great idea but we are rejecting RFE 69640 because we don’t feel we can deliver it within the next 18-24 months which is the goal we have set for RFE deliverables as part of our IMS Gold program.. You are welcome to resubmit this RFE at a later date and we will reconsider.
We appreciate your input to IMS, and we hope that you will continue to submit ideas for improvements as customer feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of IMS.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Deepak Kohli - deepakk@us.ibm.com
Comment on RFE reassignment:
This is not a problem of the IMS Enterprise Suite but a problem of IMS Connect itself. IMS connect is not able to connect to multiple z/OS TCP/IP stacks and BECAUSE OF THAT it is difficult / impossible to us to use e.g. the IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer to access our customer's systems.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Information management
Product family - IMS
Product - IMS Enterprise Suite
Component - IMS Connect APIs for Java and C
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