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Enterprise Service Tools

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IMS Web Service Tools: Add "BLOCKS" option to CEE3DMP_OTPIONS in XML converter

Today if an xml converter writes a CEE dump to ICON job log there are no information about static and automatic PLI variables included in the deump. Today the generated variable CEE3DMP_OPTIONS in a XML converter looks as follows: dcl CEE3DMP_OPTI...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered

Expose new CICS Web assistants options in RDz EST UI

Need to expose new options of the CICS Web assistants in RDz UI :the top-down tooling in RDz is closely derived from the DFHWS2LS tool from CICS. In CICS TS V5.1 DFHWS2LS is enhanced with a new configuration parameter called 'MAPPING-OVERRIDES'. I...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

SGW-Enterprise WSDL first approach: Support data compression between ICON and IMS

We have now over 400 "IMS SGW Enterprise" based web services in place. All these web services are based on "WSDL first" approach. Especially with large IMS response messages we have bad response time in our setup with IMS-shared queues (20km dista...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Delivered

Program Control Flow with GOBACK/STOP RUN

In RDz, COBOL Program control flow are not ompleted because the GOBACK/STOP RUN are not currently handled in the control flow.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Delivered

Impure field declaration for xml_element_mapped and xml_attribute_mapped in generated PLI XML-converter

Context: RDz 8.5.1, xsebatch, wsdl first approach. The generated PLI XML-converter declares the fields xml_attribute_mapped and xml_element_mapped. Currently the declaration type is bin(1) but should be bit(1).
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

Reduce the memory used in ICON for every XML-converter load module

Each load module of a XML-converter genenerated by RDz-xsebatch, containing input and output converters, has 300-400 KB, per operation. ICON loads each load module twice, so it takes approx 600+KB storage. This will require RDz changes to avoid lo...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Configurable soapAction in Compiled XML Conversion

It is about the WSDL generated by EST Web Services project Bottom Up. We found that the soapAction value in the WSDL is not configurable no matter using Compiled XML Conversion or Interpretive XML Conversion. It bring inconvenience to users as it ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 8 Delivered

Support the new PL1 memory layout in generated XML-converter and MPP-template

PLI RFE http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=29703 describes an optional new memory layout for PLI fields declared as "char(n) varying". RDz xsebatch tool has to support this new PLI memory model as soon as it i...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

IMS SOAP Gateway must have the function both of top-down and bottom-up approach in RD/z product.

Our customer has decided to adopt interface centric design using WSDL. We have several environments including Web Services requester and provider. So we must have both top-down approach (WSDL to COBOL copybook) and bottom-up approach (COBOL copybo...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 7 Delivered

Suppress object of ODO from interface and calculate value at runtime

In a web services bottom up generation scenario, we use the OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause in our COBOL Copybooks to have variable length arrays and RDz correctly translates to the schema equivalent of minOccurs and maxOccurs. The use of the ODO claus...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered