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SOAP Gateway

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IMS SOAP Gateway support of multiple endpoints.

Actually IMS SOAP Gateway doesn't support the specification of multiple PORT in a single WSDL file or better it is not able to dynamically identify the PORT information at runtime. The customer case was made by different WSDL:PORT specifications i...
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 2 Delivered

Raise limit of OTMA descriptors

Raise the limitation of ~255 OTMA descriptors to far higher
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Allow overrides of WSDL

Allow for overriding the destination in the WSDL and overriding the program being used as the converter.
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Provide example JCL to compile and link the converter module

Provide example JCL to compile and link the converter module in the manual and in a SAMPLIB dataset installed with the product.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 0 Delivered

logs should be written in the system default code page

SOAP Gateway should write all logs in the system default code page.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

SOAP Gateway error handling

The SOAP gateway is not handling error states consistent with other mainframe products, which typically produce a single error message when the bad state occurred or changed and a single informational message when the error state has been resolved...
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Support for SAML 2.0 Assertions (signed and unsigned)/SAML 2.0

This requirement has been submitted as MR0519116124. Support SAML 2.0 Assertions
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Semantic Address Location

This requirement has been submitted as MR0519112130. IMS SOAP Support has to support a port address location with the following semantic in case of call-in (IMS provider):The address is a standard http(s) URL:• Protocol, host and port have to be i...
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 3 Delivered

ICON, OTMA, SGW: Error Enhancements

Requirement was submitted as MR0519112748. Send only w/ACK and NACK for Sync Callout response.
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Remove unneeded XML processing (i.e. parsing/marshalling) in SGW to reduce cpu usage and to improve performance

During SOAP request and response handling SGW parses and marshalles the whole SOAP-envelope what is mostly unneeded because SGW (more or less) just bypass the request/response to/from ICON. This XML processing takes not only a lot of cpu time but ...
over 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered