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IMS Enterprise Suite

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IMS Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Requirement on IMS for JOINs across non-hierarchical related tables

In our IMS ODBM PoC development, we need the ability to JOIN IMS sibling segments.    We realize that this incurs performance overhead, but we still need to have this SQL JOIN option with child-to-child segments as well as DBD-to-DBD seg...
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Passticket support for Database Access

Hi, We use passticket for IMS SQL Batch utility. The passticket also supports MFA in batch utility. We would like to see the passticket usage in IMS Explorer for database connection, which simplifies our access for development systems. Thanks !!
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (IMS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
12 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / All components 0 Not under consideration

advanced metadata objects with the JDBC driver outside of IMS Explorer

Currently there only exists a way to export an artifact to supply the DLIDatabaseViews to the IMS Universal JDBC driver as the non-Catalog metadata source. The DLIDatabaseView does not support advanced metadataobjects like Segment Map Cases or Use...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

IMS-Explorer is a very valuable tool. It should run under x86-Linux as well as under Windows

Currently the IMS Explorer is installable under Windows. It should be installable and run under x86 Linux as well.
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer - Security improvement

The userid/pswd fields are exposed in cleartext when looking at the network traffic using a trace.This can be a serious security exposure, depending on the business and if the user use the same userid/pswd in production and development environments.
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Global Transaction Support needed for .NET ODBM Development

We would like the .NET ODBM capability to be able to handle both LOCAL and GLOBAL transaction processing just as the JAVA IMS Universal Drivers offer both capabilities.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

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