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Enterprise Service Tools

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Design and realize an algorithm and config-setting to reject huge SOAP requests/respectively huge PL/I response payload

SGW-enterprise, WSDL first approach: Design and realize an algorithm and configuration setting to reject huge SOAP requests/respectively huge PL/I response payloads and send back a SOAP Fault instead of processing the request/response.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Fix eclipse so file association will show only what is installed on my pc

When I go to window/ preferences/ general/ Editors/ file association. I then select a file type and associated editors. I then select external programs I get a list of programs. Most are not even on my pc and some that are on my pc are not listed ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Give RDz the ability to split property groups between system managed and user managed groups

Currently the option on property groups is to either1. Let the system manage the property groups2. Let the user manage the property groups We would like to be able to have a variation of this. We would like the system set up so that property grou...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

RD/z Web Services: Support for COBOL development in outbound (i.e. CICS as requester) scenarios for 'meet-in-the-middle'

We would love RD/z to offer better tooling for COBOL in the outbound (CICS as Web Service Requester) meet-in-the-middle context. We would love RD/z to take the pain of the repetitive and painful coding which is necessary to unpack the CICS contain...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Allow mapping of multiple operations for IMS Callout

We create an IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway project. In the wsdl file we define two operation, 'moltiplicazione ' and 'somma '. When we want to map the existing service, we see a windows that asks us to 'Choose the root XML element and the lang...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 7 Not under consideration

WebService Enhancement

The MAJOR difference between all other platforms and the mainframe is the fact that the mainframe manipulates data stored in displacement oriented blocks. A requirement for displacement oriented data is a finite length specification. This hard non...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

RDz EST to support National numerics in copybook

Need full support for National numerics in Cobol copybook when generating webservice Artifact.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Support nested WSDL files for IMS Top-Down Development

The ability for 1 WSDL to import another WSDL when submitted to the RDz xsebatch build process used for the IMS Top Down developement scenario. Potentially the imported WSDL may import another WSDL. This is a nested WSDL concept similiar to nested...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

Support XML element and attribute names that collide with PL/I built-in function names

Missing xsd:extension base generation into PLI declare that collide with PLI built-in function names.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

IMS SGW Enterprise: compress request/response data between ICON and IMS

We have now several "IMS SGW Enterprise" based web services in place. Especially with large IMS response messages we have bad response time in our setup with Shared Queues (20km distance). reading/writing IMS messages is very slow. As a result the...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration