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Enterprise Service Tools

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Requesting RDz v9.x to support Enterprise COBOL v5.1

Our application developers use Rational Developer for System z ("RDz") to generate Web Service programs for CICS. We are implementing the Enterprise COBOL v5.1 compiler in order to exploit the new and faster machine instructions on the zEnterprise...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Cobol editor should prevent "save" action if data is entered after column 80

Customer is running RTC 602 and RDz 951. When a developer types Cobol source after column 80 with COBOL Editor, the save action and the RTC check-in/Deliver are permitted. When compiling with RTC, the translator ends in error with a truncation err...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

If step does not have SYSOUT or SYSPRING, JES step does not show return code

When submitting a job, if there is an error, the JES should generate the SYSPRINT or SYSOUT regardless of the DUMMY DD in the JCL.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

Update IDz UI to include all available options for CICS web assistants

We need to ability to set all the available parameters for the CICS web assistants (DFHWS2LS, DFHLS2WS, DFHSC2LS, DFHLS2SC, DFHJS2LS and DFHLS2JS) via the UI in IDz. An example of a currently missing parameter is DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS for DFHWS2LS.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Prevent High CPU consumption when using very Large MVS-Files Filters

Users can cause High CPU consumption when using very Large MVS-Files Filters Large filters can be created using the Filter properties dialog. Then the filter can be expanded to include multiple filters e.g. SYS1.* SYS2.?* etc
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

EST Bottom-Up support for multiple operations within a service

Generating webservices for the CICS in RDz is done by using the Enterprise Service Tools (EST) features.It supports two different approaches, top-down and bottom-up.The top-down approach is based on a constructed WSDL file and support multiple ope...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Get default code page of the RSE for the code page HCE

Our RSE code page is set to IBM-1147 and we want to get this code page by default for the Host Connection emulator (HCE) instead of IBM-037 in each new workspace.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered

Push to Client with DB2 database connection doesn't import filters

With Push To client, in Data perspective, DB2 Database connections does not imported the defined schema filter.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

IDz - Enable Enterprise Web Service should behave like it does in an EST project

The "Enable Enterprise Web Service" function should have the same behaviour as the generation wizard from an EST Project.The properties should be remembered. At the moment they are not, and we have to provide all properties over and over again.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Nested WSDL in RDz

Customer needs to map, generate and deploy a callout WebService into IMS Soap Gateway.Usually he imports WSDL and COBOL copybook into RDz, do mapping, generate artefacts and finally deploy into soap gateway.Customer needs to use a WSDL that import...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 8 Delivered