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Allow (zOSConnect-3.0) Audit Interceptor to be configured at specific API level.

Currently for zOSConnect-3.0 (openAPI3), Audit Interceptor can only be configured at Global level for all Provider and Requestor APIs in the server.This limits the ability to log API specific custom-headers to SMF, as we could only provide 4 heade...
2 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

time stamp for BAQR0662E

Time stamp for BAQR0662E No free sessions were available on CICS connection... No indication of when it happened, to diagnose any slowdown in backend CICS system.
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Apply default values defined for optional queryParameters from openapi3 document when the parameters are missing on the incoming API request

when using z/OS Connect Designer 3.0.99, the default values defined in OpenAPI 3 document for optional query parameters are not being automatically applied when the parameters are missing from the incoming request, forcing you to use JSONata expre...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

When implementing zCEE HA Round Robin provide a new message "no Free sessions in Group" rather than BAQR0662E: No free sessions for single connection

When the zCEE HA Round Robin Routing implemented: We get the BAQR0662E; no free sessions that triggers alerts, zCEE just goes to next CICS Connection in the Group List; no hard failure. A new Error message, for when zCEE rasters thru all the conne...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Only start APIs / API requesters, which have been properly loaded

Currently it can happen, that z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0 servers start APIs or API requesters, which haven't been properly loaded. The following sample is from a cluster of two z/OS Connect servers. A new API was deployed into the shared apps direct...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under 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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Password spray alerts various sources

zSecure Alert is uniquely equipped to capture events and circumstances at near real-time and can serve as an early alert for such incidents as password spraying from external sources. The identification of an attack from external sources (SSH and ...
2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Alert 0 Under review

Enhancement to Liberty feature mpOpenAPI-2.0 to filter OpenAPI documentation for a single API application.

Enhance the Liberty feature mpOpenAPI-2.0 to provide a mechanism to be able to view only the OpenAPI documentation for one specific deployed API application, when viewing the OpenAPI documentation served from the <host>:<port>/openapi ...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration