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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 15, 2017

DDL SQL batch batch passticket support

DDL SQL batch password is passed in clear either in JCL or dataset. Our shop does not allow the user to have the password in clear. DDL SQL batch need to support passticket.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Dec 11, 2018

    Hi Luxmi,

    I am excited to share with you that we have successfully delivered your requested enhancement.

    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!

    This RFE has been delivered via IMS service process. The APARs offered the support are V14 PI99038, V15 PI99040.

    Please share your feedback with us as you implement this enhancement.

    Have a great day!

    Sincerely,
    Swetha Sridharan
    swetha.sridharan@ibm.com

  • Guest
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    Jan 25, 2018

    Hi Luxmi, the timeline for this RFE is being evaluated internally, I will follow up with a posted update on this item in the near future.

    Best Regards,
    Daphne Isom - dsteele4@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
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    Jan 25, 2018

    The timeline for this RFE is being evaluated internally, we will post an update on this item in the near future.

  • Guest
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    Dec 5, 2017

    Hi Luxmi Gnanamuttu,

    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!
    Daphne Isom - dsteele4@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
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    Nov 27, 2017

    If possible - provide support for a client certificate as a complement to the userid/passtkt.
    Extract client cert. info and bridge to a RACF user, the use this RACF ID for further authentication.
    If it works, then we don't have to expose our RACF id's outside system z.

  • Guest
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    Nov 14, 2017

    Hi Luxmi,

    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.

    We are currently reviewing this item for consideration, and we plan to seek additional feedback from other IMS clients. 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 our ability to deliver within the next 18 months and prioritize those.


    You will automatically be notified of ongoing progress associated with this RFE.


    Have a great day!
    Daphne Isom - dsteele4@us.ibm.com

  • Guest
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    Mar 2, 2017

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Analytics Platform
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS System Services
    Component - Installation and Configuration
    Source - Other

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Analytics Platform
    Product family - IMS
    Product - IMS Transaction Manager
    Component - Open Access TM
    Source -