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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS System Services
Categories General System
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 22, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Keep IMS generation process after the requirement for IMS-managed ACBs is in place

There is a statement of direction that IBM will eliminate the need for system generation in following announcement letter.
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/760/ENUSJP17-0477/index.html&request_locale=ja

Our client use various generation source codes (ex. APPLCTN, DATABASE, and TRANSACT macro statement, DBD and PSB source statements) as input of user program generation,
and those user programs provide the function as API between IMS and application program.

If the generation processes and generation sources codes will not be provided in the future IMS version, it is difficult for our client to migrate to that version .
So they need that generation processes continue to provide after the requirement for IMS-managed ACBs is in place.
(Please refer to the attached document.)

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 29, 2020

    Hi Nakata-san,

    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 144109 is because this is not our strategic direction. Our goal is to eventually eliminate all Gens from IMS.

    We appreciate your input to IMS, and we hope that you will continue to submit ideas for improvements as customer feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of IMS.

    Sincerely,
    Deepak Kohli (Deepakk@us.ibm.com)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 22, 2020

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