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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 83518.
This enhancement has been delivered via IMS service process:
IMS 15 APAR[PTF]: PH16409[UI66831] - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH16409
and also PH24410 for a fixing APAR to PH16409.
PH16409 enhances the IMS adapter REXXIMS to increase the max MAPDEF length value to 16 bytes for packed(P) and 32 bytes for zoned(Z). Additionally, the scale (.digit) specification has been increased to allow 0 to 31 digits for both P and Z specifications. The scale indicates the number of digits to the right of a decimal point when converting the number. MAPGET and MAPPUT are changed to support the longer P and Z length values, as well as the increased scale of a decimal number.
Please share your feedback with us as you implement this enhancement.
Have a great day!
Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com
Hi Michael Tutor,
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 RFE ID 83518 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. Thank you for your continuous support and interest in the IMS product.
Have a great day!
Haley Fung - hfung@us.ibm.com