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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2017

Need a tool to batch ".SAR" creation.

We want to batch the IMS service creation instead of using the API Toolkit.
We have more than 4500 service to migrate from our actual SOA plateform. We need an industrial way to generate ".sar(s)".

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 3, 2017

    This RFE has been reviewed by the z/OS Connect EE development team and is being rejected because specific aspects of the request do not align with the strategic direction for the product.

    Automated DevOps pipeline operations for Service creation are being aligned around a common pattern which takes a z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (Eclipse-based) project as the primary input resource.
    This pattern does not provide for direct, automated production of services from source code materials. The strategic direction is to encourage a considered curation during the service-enablement process to encapsulate expertise for a given z/OS asset, and to produce services which are consumable for the API developer.

  • Guest
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    Jul 26, 2017

    In addition,
    We want to create mutliple .sar in one time.
    We want to provide lists of Copybook or cobol structures for the requests and the reponses.
    We also want to provide for each service the name of the service, the transaction code and the ims parameters.
    Moreover, we also need a option to check all redefines in the data structure to expose all of them in the created service.

    Regards,
    Eric Bartolone.