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Thank you for this requirement.
There are already a number of different ways that this need could be met with what is available in the product to day:
1) Policy can be used to change the service connection dynamically based on a request header. Using this, many connections can be used with a single service archive file. See the "Administering z/OS Connect EE Policies" topic in our knowledge center for more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/administering/policies_overview.html
2) Depending on the use case, you may be able to negate the need to deploy multiple instances of the same service through using a logical naming of your connectionRefs: See the "How to move services between environments for DevOps." topic in our knowledge center for more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/designing/changing_connection.html
3) z/OS Connect EE Unlimited provides a pricing model that removes the financial impact of adding more server instances. This provides the freedom to create a 1:1 relationship between z/OS Connect EE servers and back end systems of record (where it may be appropriate) to avoid issues like those described in this RFE. See the z/OS Connect EE Unlimited announcement here: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS219-467/index.html&request_locale=en
As such this RFE is being declined at this time. If the capabilities above do not meet your needs please feel free to open a new RFE articulating the use case that cannot be met and specifically what is required in addition to what is described above.
Just trying to understand the issue here - AND I assume we're talking about 'InBound' - in this case CICS as a service provider.
So an individual service is associated with a CICS connection - and this is limited to a single connection. Correct ?
Is the reqt to allow the service to use multiple connections - e.g. for devt purposes or say if you have an enterprise solution which needs to support multiple operating brands ?