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Status Delivered
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 23, 2019

Preserve mappings when replacing a service in API method

It would be immensely useful if you could preserve the mappings when we replace a service by a service with a different name in a API methods. A little bit like you do when we import a more recent service (.sar file) with the same name in an API project. Our services change their names when they evolve because it is our way to implement the versionning of the services. Parallel execution of multiple versions of a service in the same z/Os Connect environnement. It works fine except for the replacing of a service in an API...

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jan 20, 2020

    This requirement is addressed by z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition API Toolkit V3.0.6.2

    Existing mappings are no longer cleared when the user changes the service associated with an API operation. If the service name has changed, impact analysis is still possible for the newly imported service

    For further details about Changing Services, refer to the “Re-importing changed services” topic in the z/OS Connect EE V3.0 Knowledge Center:
    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/designing/api_changed_services.html