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SOAP Gateway Security Features

IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway continues to enhance security options to protect your critical business data. With the latest Fix Pack releases, a transaction can be secured from the client via HTTPS and then through a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection with IMS™ Connect. Security can be enabled per message, per web service, or for the entire SOAP Gateway server. New SOAP Gateway security enhancements provide additional flexibility, support for industry standards, and improve interoperability with your existing security infrastructure through:

Java keystore (JKS) security

IBM z/OS® Application Transparent Transport Layer Security (AT-TLS)

WS-Security with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Token Profile 1.1

Custom Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) Module

Corrected Link: To find out more about these security features find full article here: http://ow.ly/5O1ee

FYI: Stay tuned to find hear about upcoming new releases of SOAP Gateway!

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Marilene Roder Talks about IMS Explorer Tech Preview

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IMS and Cognos for Business Analytics

Absolutely do not miss this informational webinar " IMS and Cognos for Business Analytics" on July 26th.

Register using the link in the pdf to learn more IMS and Cognos can help your business.

http://g01zcdwas002.ahe.pok.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/telecon/jul26/

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IMS Connectivity provides a free suite of solutions that offer a variety of ways for our customers to modernize and leverage existing IMS transactions as well as providing you direct and open access to IMS data.

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IMS V11 Open Database

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Don't want miss your favorites speakers and topics, OpenDB, SOA, mainframe security and much more.....

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Operational Business Intelligence with Cognos & IMS

Unlock your operational data in IMS to make informed business decisions using enhanced reporting from Cognos.

Operational Business Intelligence with Cognos & IMS

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TELECON: IMS Operational Best Practices-Sept 28

IMS expert Kevin Stewart will have a discussion on IMS configuration and parameter settings, resource monitoring, and message automation to improve availability and avoid unplanned outages. Details here: http://bit.ly/aA74IU

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smarterplanet:

IBM’s @smarterplanet will be hosting a Twitterstorm on Monday, September 20, from 12 – 1 pm PT.

This one-hour conversation will feature Andy Bochman, one of IBM’s smart grid experts and an…

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Capturing Eclipse Console Output in a Log File

Output from your programs in most Eclipse-based IDEs is, by default, sent to the console. By default, the number of characters the console can display is limited. This can cause you to "lose" output that may be needed for diagnosis if there is a problem. An example of such diagnostic output is the DRDA trace output generated by IMS Open Database.

To allow your program to automatically capture and log your console output, take the following steps:

In Eclipse, make sure the program that you want to capture the trace from is loaded.

Click on Run -> Debug Configurations...

When the Debug Configurations dialog box appears, click on the Common tab on the right side.

Under the section Standard Input and Output, check the File box.

Click on the File System button to specify the file you want to save the output to (file will be created if it does not exist).

You can click the Append box if you want to always append to the output file, or leave unchecked if you want to overwrite old output every run

Now your console output will be saved every time you run your program

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Why would IMS Resource Adapter not reconnect after losing the connection to IMS Connect

If you are using IMS TM Resource Adapter's with following setting:

Software: WESB 7.0.0.2 and IMS TM Resource Adapter 11.2.1

Use case: Synchronous ICAL                             

Adapter configuration:       

retryInterval=60000          

retryLimit=0.                

stopPollingOnError=false  

You might getting following error mesage: 

 "ICO0003E: connect()  error" and "ICO0005E: getMessage() error"                                

So how do I resolve this ????

Change the value of  retryLimit to a non zero value.

According to defintion of retryLimit: The maximum number of times the IMS TM resource adapter will attempt to reconnect to IMS Connect if a connection is lost.

So make sure you have a non zero value defined for retryLimit.

Happy IMSing!!!!

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Douglas Horton

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Avoid CICS connection issues after IMS v11 upgrade

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Are you doing an IMS v11 upgrade? Do you use CICS to connect to IMS DB via DBCTL? Avoid connection issues after the upgrade by doing the following:

Update CICS PROC to point to V11 libraries and the library with the updated DFSPRP. NOTE: Reassembly of the DRA (DFSPZPxx) using the V11 MACRO (DFSRPR) is not required unless you are changing parameter values (such as as the dsname of the DRA RESLIB) or want to use new functions. Though not required we do recommend reassembly of the DRA with FUNCLV=2.

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Troubleshooting your IMS ABENDs

Ever had IMS abnormally end (ABEND) and had no clue where to start? Empower yourself by learning to find the clues in a dump that might tell why you had the ABEND and best practices for dealing with them.

Troubleshooting your IMS problems

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IMS goes to Washington

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If you are in the DC area, meet us there on September 14, 2010 for a free user group meeting (meals included). Topics include HALDB migration, database performance and security. See (and download if you want) the agenda below and if it looks good to you, register here.

Washington flyer 9142010

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Have a great weekend Y'all