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z/OS Connect

Embedding gradle plugins in the Designer image

As you can see in TS022940654 we have a problem with the Designer that forces us to connect/disconnect the VPN to be able to make a buld of the project and later test the API. The problem would be avoided if the image with which the container is c...
14 days ago in z/OS Connect Under review

An alternative is needed for <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> - not suitable for production like environment

  Customer is only deploying whole WAR files and not individual artifacts from the WAR files, such as JAR or CLASS files. Originally, the intention of `autoExpand="true"` on WebSphere Liberty was as follows: <quote> The main advantage o...
14 days ago in z/OS Connect Under review

Bidirectional Hebrew support for z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0 - API Provider

At the moment bidirectional (BIDI) Hebrew support is only available for CICS API providers running in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.There is a critical need of BIDI support for (CICS) API providers in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0, as otherwise text fields co...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Planned for future release

Bidirectional Hebrew support for z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0 - API Requester

At the moment, there is no bidirectional (BIDI) Hebrew support for API requesters in z/OS Connect. There is a critical need of BIDI support for (CICS) API requesters in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0, as otherwise text fields contai...
22 days ago in z/OS Connect Under review

I’d like you to enable Base64 encoding.

I’d like you to make it possible to use Base64 encoding to prevent truncation, alteration, or garbling when setting values in JSON that may contain control characters or arbitrary bytes in the 0x00–0xFF range, and/or to embed (serialize) images, k...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect Functionality already exists

Support IBM MQ Service Provider in z/OS Connect V3.0 (OpenAPI 3.0)

Currently, z/OS Connect V3.0 supports OpenAPI 3.0, but it lacks the native IBM MQ Service Provider that was available in z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition V2.0 (OpenAPI 2.0). Many enterprise sites rely heavily on z/OS Connect to expose mainframe MQ-...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

To add maxLength validation on Date/time fields during copybook and WAR file generation

Currently z/OS Connect gives below error when maxLength keyword is provided along with Date/time fields.We have this keyword from the non z/OS APIs we consume . BAQP0017W: Failed to process operation (operationId: getRelationBasic, path: /v1/CRM/R...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

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