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Single SingOn for HATS WEB connections. We need it for MIDAS Core banking SSO

Problem description: We are using a WebSphere based banking application Midas Bank Fusion (from MISYS). User do connect to WAS using browser. WAS is using IBM-I for authentication and Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) to integrate with 52...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

Handle multiple lines of header data

For HATS screen combinations, give HATS the ability to capture multiple rows of header data, and keep those separated from the actual table data. Today HATS can only extract one row of header data. Many host screens with tabular data have two or m...
7 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Add last screen handling for Screen Combinations

Add the capability to screen combinations last screen processing such that data may not extracted on the last screen if the data that is displayed is repeated. This happens when the last screen of data is only recognized when a PF key is hit and t...
7 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Containerization of HATS projects

System: HATSActor: Official support for HATS containers HATS is a commonly used product that provides Host Access modernization. HATS projects are normally web applications that are deployed to an application server and accessed over a browser. De...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Support for JAX RS 2.1

HATS 9.7.1 does not support JAX RS 2.1.This can result in JSON output that has erroneous data in it, significantly growing the payload size. Support case TS005196179 details examples and such. Please add support for JAX RS 2.1
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

HATS User List -- User selection enhancement

We are experiencing an issue with our connect macro, our connect macro made use of a user list If by mistake any of the IDs on the user list has a typo, that connection fails to be established which in turn causes that connection to never end and ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

HATS Connection profiles need ability to use environment properties

A common issue for HATS is that connection properties need to be tweaked or customized to the particular environment that they are deployed to. This might be because the pooling limits differentiate in an environment, the user id's differentiate i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

HATS parsing of data in services response for index variables

When HATS returns data in a service response for an indexed variable, it returns the data as a single string with all of the data concatenated together. This is difficult to consume and not at all what is expected in a service (either SOAP or REST...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Not under consideration

IBM HATS high severity security issue - Session Fixation

Using HATS, the session id (JSESSIONID) created on login page of the application is not changed after successful authentication. Due to this application is vulnerable to high severity security issue - session fixation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Provide customizable way to add input attributes at HATS input fields and at HATS form level

As a HATS toolkit user, I need to add custom attribute to all the text input fields on screens rendered by HATS. HATS project default rendering uses “Field” as “Component” and “Widget” for the “Remaining text and input fields”. In the “Text input”...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release