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Enterprise Service Tools

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WSDL first-support for PL/1 and IMS using RD/z

Credit Suisse would like to be able to create from a WSDL file: (1) Web service providers (i.e. IMS Inbound), and (2) Web Service Requesters (i.e. IMS Callout). In order to support creation of these two types of applications, IBM Rational Develope...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

Add OPTIONAL command for the annotation support

The annotation support in bottom up web service generation allows three actions currently: Include, Exclude and rename elements. We are requesting another annotation to mark an element as optional. This will take the same syntax as the include or ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered

COBOL Compiled XML Conversion: XML2LS language structure initialization support

Customer Published Description to be provided.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 6 Delivered

Support for XML attributes

Customer need to be able to create inbound and outbound programs for XML schemas that contains XML attributes with values. Like <person sex="female">.
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Delivered