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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 3, 2018

Allow modification of minItems in API Toolkit while defining a service

This is a request to add an advanced option to the z/OS Connect API Toolkit to allow a consumer to choose/set the minItems value during a service creation. This setting would force the api toolkit to generate schema that force minItems to 0, instead of having to do this manually, by editing the SAR file.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Aug 20, 2018

    This requirement has been evaluated. Looking at current plans, it is not likely that this would be implemented in future zOS Connect EE releases, so correspondingly this requirement is being rejected. You have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be considered then.

    Currently the schema we generate will contain whatever was found in the COBOL structure. If the COBOL structure has OCCURS 0 TO 20, then we'll set the minItems to 0. Likewise, if the program has OCCURS 5 TO 10, we'll set minItems to 5. As the COBOL structure defines what is acceptable as program input or output it would be best to change the structure to correctly set the accepted minimum number of items.