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It is our mission, within IMS, to deliver high quality code to our clients. Our goal is that this enhancement continues to help drive success for your company!
I am excited to share with you that we have successfully delivered an enhancement that can help with the requested RFE ID 105354.
This enhancement has been delivered via IMS service process:
IMS 14 APAR[PTF]: PH25585[UI71424] - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH25585
IMS 15 APAR[PTF]: PH25586[UI71410] - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH25586
This enhancement provides Hex and Binary literal support in SQL queries with the IMS universal drivers.
Please share your feedback with us as you implement this enhancement.
Have a great day!
Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com
Hi Mr. Ravilla,
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.
After reviewing this request for enhancement and assessing its potential value, our decision is to add this item to our backlog. Items in our backlog are expected to be delivered within the next 18 months. We reserve the right to re-prioritize our backlog items as new requests come in. This helps ensure that we are constantly focused on providing the best value to all of our clients.
Have a great day!
Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com
I voted for the RFE, although my customer needs Hex Value Support. Because binary literal support would be helpful for them too.
In the case the segment edit function of E4D puts the value the user has updated without any transformation into a SQL update statement, the
binary literal support should fix this problem. Otherwise there must be some problem with the transformation.
Also, at this moment there is no proper error message showing when E4D encounters such problem. Please make sure it will when this RFE is finished.