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provide client disconnect timeout; like CTG closetimeout

Provide zCEE client disconnect timeout; like CTG client closetimeout. End CICS work based upon closetimeout value, like CTG. This would end the workload; freeing sessions; rollback, when the front end client times out and disconnects; saving backe...
about 9 hours ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

Update audit interceptor to set SMF123S1_CLIENT_IP_ADDR to value of X-Forwarded-For when available

Where requests are routed through load balancers and gateways the current SMF123S1_CLIENT_IP_ADDR value does not reflect the true IP address of the client, rather it holds the value of the gateway/load balancer. We require to know the true value w...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

Enhance z/OS Connect EE to support retrieval of a list of outbound requests (API Requesters) deployed on z/OS Connect EE servers configured with OpenAPI 3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides robust functionality to list APIs via its management interfaces. However, it lacks an equivalent feature for listing API Requesters(Outbound requests)—representing outbound API calls—deployed on a z/OS Connect E...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Add Response Payloads to IBMJMXConnectorREST APIs

Currently the JMXConnectorREST APIs return no response payloads, only the HTTPS response codes. We would like to use the APIs for administering z/OS Connect server artifacts, however, without response payloads it is difficult to do so. A 200 or 20...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Under review

z/OS Connect 3.0 - Enforce authentication through server instead of / additional to API security role

Enforce authentication either through the security role defined in the OpenAPI specification (x-ibm-zcon-roles-allowed) or through a default role defined / forced by the server configuration. Therefore it would be possible to prevent APIs without ...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

A "kind" of STATEOD parameter similar to what exists in CICS

SMF 123 records are written at the stop of the zOSconnect server or every 20 requests or at each request if it is set in the server.xml (bad idea for production environment) We would like to have a parameter similar to SATEOD in CICS to write the ...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Enable a java stub to make an API requester call direct from a java programme

Java isn't new on zOS yet zOS Connect seems to be behind the curve in support for java applications hosted on zOS. This request is to provide a stub like concept for use by java programs to enable them to call out to REST API endpoints directly wi...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Expand the granularity of the PreSor and PostSor times to be able to determine where in the z/OS Connect process slow response times are actually occurring

Due to a recent issue we had with a single API in API Provider where we were seeing intermittent very long PostSOR times for the same input client request data which was returning a relatively large response data structure from the SOR whilst othe...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Enable tracing per API on zOS Connect OAS 3

Given that when enabling tracing (either binary or non binary), there's an impact on server performance, that affects all APIs deployed on that server, we'd like to have an option to enable tracing per api, so that when analyzing we'll only be imp...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

IBM z/OS Connect 3.0 support of a OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

Looking for zOS Connect 3.0 to support OAS 3.1 specs as an apiRequester Currently the apiRequester plugin does NOT support the consumption/parsing of an OAS 3.1 spec (per IBM doc) Below from (Release notes - IBM Documentation) Known issues and lim...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration