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Enterprise Service Tools

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Need support for SOAP 1.2 binding in CICS compiled

RDz Enterprise Service Tool can only generate web service artifacts including WSDL in soap 1.1 binding for Compiled XML Conversion, even if setting soap version to 1.2 in the web service assistant option. Request to support generating web service ...
almost 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...
almost 12 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.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 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.
about 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...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

RDz does not allow copy with a function similar to ISPF "Replace like-named members" for PDS members.

Using RDz, the overwrite option not available for the member copy function when a user provides an alternate name and there is already a member with the alternate name existing in the PDS. They would like the same functionality as ISPF where it gi...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Generate more meaningful COBOL names from wsdl when using top down Web Services

When generating COBOL from wsdl, data element names may exceed the maximum number of characters allowed by COBOL. There are two options currently available for shortening the names to an allowable length: truncating on the left or on the right. Ne...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Support of type xsd:choice in IMS SOAP-Gateway, i.e. in RDz xsebatch

RDz xsebatch should generate xml-converters that support XSD-type choice.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Refactor the common XML-converter parts in libraries/host modules to reduce each converters memory footprint

I recognized that every generated "SGW Entrprise" XML-converter contains same or very similar code. This common code could be extracted from the converter and placed into a central library. This is especially relevant for code that uses a lot of m...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Support of type xsd:choice in IMS SOAP-Gateway, i.e. in RDz xsebatch

RDz xsebatch should generate xml-converters that support XSD-type choice.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration