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Enterprise Service Tools

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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.
almost 13 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...
almost 13 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.
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 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...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

DB2 : Dynamic control of duplicate key

Informs the user dynamicly about a duplicate key while inserting rows in a DB2 table(Actually, the save of the table is requested to be adviced).
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

request to have one Web service project including z/OS + EST + any other subprojects

When developing Web services, different type of projects are needed:- EST for the CICS and SOAP artifacts- z/OS for the COBOL sources- General projects for the WSDL files for example Developers have to switch from one view/perspective to another a...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

Enhance RDz COBOL unicode support and character filtering

Please enhance RDz COBOL unicode support, so that it takes advantage of recent improvements in the COBOL specification.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

DB2 dynamic value control

Dynamic alert when entering a value in a column that is not in the correct format.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

RDz xsebatch: PLI-binding for elements located in SOAP-header

RDz 8.0.1 WSDL first approach supports the PLI language binding of elements declared in WSDL which are bound to SOAP-body in provider case. RDz 8.0.3 should also support PLI-binding of elements located in SOAP-header. This SOAP-header elements are...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

RDz wsdl2pli binding: Support out-of-line binding for base64Binary (intended for large objects)

Coming RDz version will support PLI inline binding for base64binary elements < 32KB. A future RDz version should support base64binary elements > 32KB. A so called out-lined binding would be best solution: The regular copy book includes only ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration