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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 16, 2018

Plugins needed to generate deployable Enterprise Service Tools artifacts

We are using the Enterprise Service Tools perspective from within IDz.

We need a command line utility( java/batch) or preferably a Gradle plugin from IBM which can be used to generate the deployable artifacts on non Z/OS build system, preferably Linux.
For example:-
A java/batch/Gradle plugin which can generate .wsbind file , copybook artifacts from an input/source JSON schema files and properties file.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 2, 2022
    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. This request for enhancement is not currently aligned with our product strategy and vision and for this reason, we will not be implementing it. Again, thank you for your suggestion and continued support.
  • Guest
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    May 26, 2021

    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 - IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Edition
    Component - z/OS Application Development
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server
    Component - Other
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    Oct 29, 2018

    This is a candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
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    Sep 6, 2018

    The Class Factory is a supported Java API to generate the artifacts you mention. Would writing a program to use the api fulfill the requirement ?

  • Guest
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    Jul 23, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - CICS Transaction Server
    Component - Other
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
    Component - Other
    Operating system - z/OS
    Source - None