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Enterprise Service Tools

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enable the additional attributes for generated XML schema using EST (IMS SOAP G/W)

We require that RD/z EST for IMS Bottom-up tool can add the XML schema's attribute generated from copybook using wizard option. Candidate XML's schema's attribute are the following.- change minOccurs="N" to minOccurs="0", add default="xx" as defau...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

One-to-many mapping

One-to-many mapping (i.e. Map COBOL data for multiple XML elements and vice versa). Mapping of data should allow the ability of One-to-many relationships to occur when each record may have many linked records in but each record in requires only on...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Improved RADz MOVE logic

Allow user to provide additional logic for MOVE (i.e. only MOVE the data if certain criteria matches)
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

The EST (DFHWS2LS) in Rational Developer for System Z (RDZ) v. 7.5.1 does not support the Catalog.xml standard.

The Catalog.xml standard enables you to use URI rewriting when XML Schema resolution is taking place. This enables you to have a common place where you store XML Schema files, that must be shared across several Enterprise Service Tools projects. T...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

XML to COBOL converter numeric conversion inefficient

The algorithm / code generated by Rational Developer for z Series to convert incoming XML data to COBOL numeric data types is inefficient. This is my understanding of the generated inbound (XML to COBOL) XML converter code: 1) Whenever the convert...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Not under consideration

Initialize the commarea input in CICS WS Handler for the omitted and required SOAP request elements

If the Web Services client does not build the complete SOAP request message for the required element, the arbitrary values (invalid data) is passed to the CICS program. So, initialization of commarea in the handler is necessary before put this int...
about 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

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