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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 9, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions.

I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API Connect on the Data Power.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     May 1, 2018

    This is a multi-facetted request which can not be processed as a single requirement. Each part has been re-raised as a specific RFE, and as such this request is now closed as a duplicate. The new set of RFEs are as follows:

    1. Concatenate multiple source parameters/queries into a target field (i.e. element1 CONCAT element2 to targetElement)
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119499

    2. Extracting a sub string or multiple sub strings of a response element (i.e. COBOL returns "ABCD", but I know I only need the first two characters "AB" exposed in the API)
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119506

    3. Allow functions to be applied to elements including calculations (i.e. multiply a price returned in pence by 100 to allow the API to return pounds).
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119507

    4. Allow multiple source or target elements to be used in a function including calculation (i.e. element1 * element2 mapped to element3, where element 3 may be a new element in the API interface that does not exist in the service)
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119511

    5. Allow fields to be defaulted to a value based on a runtime lookup against a variable store - so that
    a) multiple APIs can use the same lookup variable
    b) allow the values in the variable store to be set differently based on the target environment that the API is configured against, allowing seamless deployment through environments
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119510

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