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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 ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

IVPs should be provided with the product

Like in Fault Analyzer, which is offered with transaction CFA that includes IVPs to check its functionality, zOS Connect should also include a provided functional set to enable basic tests - a ping service, the option to expose and publish it, the...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

STDERR DD doesn't have timestamps

As you can see error messages in STDERR DD don't have date and time. This is not good. It would be very useful to have them. LBGT OUTPUT DISPLAY WLDWINEU STC34821 DSID 102 LINE 0 COLS 02- 133COMMAND INPUT ===> SCROLL ===> CSR****************...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

stopEntity() logging visibility

For creating HA solution for ZCEE we have implemented Automation solutions by issuing REFRESH commands whenever an API or Services are being installed,updated,deleted etc.We pushed the message codes to the MVS Syslog, and that is how Automation pi...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Don't send the empty elements of an array part of Responses

In an API with an array of 20 elements in Responses, if we got only 5 elements with values we still got 20 elements of which 15 are empty. This 15 empty elements are useless. It would be great to have a way to avoid it by giving, for exemple, a va...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

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 ...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Prevent duplicate authentication in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.0

When you fail to authenticate with a z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.0 server you'll see two CWWKS2907E messages for a single authentication attempt in the messages.log showing you, that the authentication fails twice. When you use RACF for authentication ...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect should abend after XML error at startup

Team, It would be great to abend the z/OS Connect task instead of hanging there with an XML error at startup. That way our automation can detect that z/OS Connect task failed to come up. Thanks for the response. Tried below options but still the z...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration