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Option to not generate comments for Declares generated with Top Down Generation

Option to select/deselect the generation of comments for the PLI/Cobol declares generated for the request and response messages, particularly when using the Top Down process. This would be the PLI xxxxxxxx.inc member that is generated and the comm...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered

IMS, WS-tools: The error handling of generated MPP in xsebatch should be changed/enhanced in case of "wsdl first" scenario.

The error handling in generated MPP (RDz 8.0.3.1) is wrong and incomplete. See PMR listed above. IBM-lab provided me an acceptable proposal for this enhancement. See attached file.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered

IMS SGW enterprise: Used namespace prefixes in SOAP over http should be as short as possible to minimize XML output

Today the generated ICON-converters use namespace prefixes from WSDL and dependent XSDs to generate XML output at runtime. If such a namespace prefix has a lot of characters (for example xmlns:getProvConsolBookColl_2_0="http://services.cs.csg.com/...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

enhancements/changes due to non interoperable alloc/free functions (LE versus PLI built in)

Problem: LE functions to alloc/free memory are interoperable with PL/I built in functions only if CHECK(NOSTORAGE) compiler option is used. In a discussion with IBM lab the decision is to enhance/change RDz (IMS SGW generated code and IRZPWSIO) as...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

IMS SGW Enterprise: Wrong LS2XML marshalling for fixed length strings

A string with a length restriction (i.e. fix length string) in a WSDL response type will be marshalled in a trimed manner into output XML. As a result the returned XML doesn't validate against the XML-schema because the returned string has less th...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

xsebatch - WSDL to PLI binding: enhancements of MPP template generation

Attached you find a proposal how MPP template should be generated in case of "WSDL first approach" including support for faults (here the use of 2 faults are shown). The goal is to maximize the separation of business code
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

Display z/OS Connection info in Web Services for CICS wizards

Introduce some visual connection info such as a very simple hover help ("a bubble") that contains connection information when mouse hovers over the "Interface file container" field? So for example, it would display For z/OS Unix files: sample.amer...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

support arbitrary extention for import copybook file in EST(IMS SOAP G/W)

Our customer requires the new function to allow to import the extension of the copybook file other than "cpy" extension such as any naming extension in RD/z EST for IMS Bottom-up approach.Because we developed the programs using HLL/WB which is Rat...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

We expect that COBOL low-value(X'00') should be converted to xsi:nil="true" attribute on an XML element by XML Converter.

We'd like to request you to implement new function of COBOL XML converter generated by RDz V7.6.1.We expect that XML converter will set the XML attribute xsi:nil="true" and not set any data, if the following conditions meet. (1)The conversion dire...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

XML Converter code does not handle COMP-5 items gracefully

If the COBOL compiler options are set to TRUN(BIN) or if the PICTURE CLAUSE USAGE is set to COMP-9, the generated XML to COBOL converter code still looks at the picture clause definition of a numeric item when converting from XML. This gives rise ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered