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(De-)Provision zCX instance with zospt

zCX instances get provisioned and removed using predefined z/OSMF workflows. The required workflow definition files already exist but lack of being fully automated: the first step which gathers instance information by user interaction and the last...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 1 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
about 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

WSDL ANY type is not supported in EGL

Customer wants to use web service developed in Java. The signature of the method is a variable of type ANY but RBD doesn't support this type into a service. for example : if you try to create a web service with a ANY type as parameter and when use...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Web Service support for WS-Atomic Transaction

Support is required for Web Service Atomic Transaction, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.zseries.doc/info/zseries/ae/cjta_wstran.html
about 18 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

zOS PT - Enable console commands to be submitted via REXX script for zCEE Workflows

We would like the zOSPT - zOS Connect workflows to be updated to allow usage of REXX scripts to submit console commands. The CICS workflows have the option to use REXX or API-EMCS to submit console commands. We'd like to see both of these same opt...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 2 Not under consideration

EGLSDK to generate service configuration files in the same way as EGLCMD and Ant scripts

This was previously raise as Case number TS014714157, where it was suggested to raise it as an RFE, for inclusion in the next release. EGLSDK does not generate essential configuration files, needed to call EGL services.1. generate -generateFile Xx...
about 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Planned for future release

Identify workflow jobs outside of z/osmf thro use of JCL comments

It would be nice to be able to match a submitted job to a workflow (outside of zosmf)… thro a matching comment in the JCL for the workflow and each step in the workflow.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Not under consideration

zospt could support dataset input for SITPARMs

The customer may have a huge number of SIT parms settings. They stores them in a specific dataset member, then set it to SYSIN in region jcl . Can we support dataset name in DFH_REGION_SITPARMS ?
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Not under consideration

zospt could provide a image repository

CEB would like zospt provide a image repository so that they could share the image across team.ps,They may have different zospt instance,as they may have different zosmf configuration
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration