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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2024

Provide SMF support for all IMS PA (streaming) services

It will make it safer to provide the possibility for (all) IMS PA reports to use SMF, both from an availability and security perspective,

By having CDP (or other product) collect the data from SMF and pass it to the correct subscriber, will only need a changes to take place once, in one place, and this will make it a more stable and secure implementation. By a centralized definition for outgoing traffic it's safer than to have the address specified in multiple places. 
Here we will be able to reuse an already defined subscriber for multiple products (IMS, Db2 MQ) instead of having to define this separate in each tool - safer and faster implementation.

This will also make it safer for us when it comes to changes e.g. to switch crypto on/off or when we need to update the DNS-name or IP-adress.

 

Idea priority High
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    Nov 11, 2024

    Hi, this was to be added to the IMS Performance Analyzer. 
    I believe I missed to select the correct destination when I needed to reenter the Idea because of a dialogue time-out.
    I hope you can help me move this Idea to the correct team - IMS PA.

    Thanks,
    Curt