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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Enterprise Service Tools
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 14, 2014

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EST Bottom-Up support for modern webservices

Generating webservices for the CICS in RDz is currently done by using the Enterprise Service Tools (EST) features.
It supports two different approaches, top-down and bottom-up.
The top-down approach is based on a constructed WSDL file and supports multiple operation within a service as well as unbounded arrays.
The bottom-up approach is based on a constructed Cobol or PL/I program and supports only one operation within a service and limited arrays.

The only modern way of looking at services is by adopting the top-down approach with multiple operations and unbounded arrays. BUT this leaves us with the problem of having to construct a WSDL file which is a very complex task, even with the modern WSDL editors available in Eclipse.

The best way would be to construct a Cobol or PL/I program, based on some guideline describing how to code multiple operations and unbounded arrays. From this program the bottom-up approach should be able to generate a WSDL file with the same support as the current top-down approach.

So this RFE suggest to enhance the bottom-up approach in the EST to support the same features as the top-down approach, specifically multiple operations in a service and unbounded arrays in the interface.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 14, 2014

    This RFE covers multiple feature requests and we would like to ask to separate it into two so that we can evaluate them separately.

    Please open two new RFEs;
    1 - Support for generating multiple operations from COBOL data.
    Please specify CICS or IMS environment and if CICS, please specify Compiled or Interpretive conversion
    2 - Support for generating unbounded constructs in WSDL from
    COBOL data. Please specify CICS or IMS environment and if CICS, please specify Compiled or Interpretive conversion

    Thank you

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 11, 2014

    A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.

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