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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS Enterprise Suite
Categories Explorer for Development
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

IE4D : Changing transaction metadata removes service setup

Refer related ID : 90583

Changing the transaction metadata for a service can also remove much of the setup that has been done to a Service (default values, included/excluded fields), even if the names of the fields have not changed.

Extract from email from Nathan Church :
"Another feature that you could help us by opening an RFE for would be a function that would preserve as much of service interfaces as possible when tranMsgs need to change. It's possible that a fair amount of work may go into the creation of service interfaces (e.g. removing fields from the input interface and supplying default values), which will currently be lost for all services based on a tranMsg that has to change. We could implement a feature that could adjust existing interfaces where possible rather than forcing you to start from scratch."

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 3, 2019

    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 ID 90584 is because given our current priorities we cannot in good faith get to this within 18 months from the date that it is being opened. 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
    |     Nov 23, 2016

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Analytics Platform
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS Enterprise Suite
    Component - Explorer for Development
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 11, 2016

    - Thank you fore submitting this RFE. We have reviewed in and have placed it on the prioritised backlog as an 'uncommitted candidate'.

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