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    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

    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

    Import COBOL copybook in lowercase

    When uploading a cobol copybook into a new API Service Project, all attributes are in uppercase although the copybook was in lowercase.We have to change every attribute to lowercase because of the standards at the customer.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Maintain variable names when importing copybooks from API Toolkit

    '- When loading copybook from API Toolkit, the "-" (Dash) character is changed to "_" (Underbar). M/F standard variable name naming rules are different from the standardization issue and can become a point of failure due to developer's error. (ex)...
    11 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

    Add time stamp to zCEE STC STDOUT

    STC job DD MSGLOG contains timestamp and various types of warning. error. infor messages, which are very confusing for developers. It would be convenient to check the message by adding timestamp to DD STDOUT and STDERR.
    6 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Improved function so that jvm.options can also be merged.

    Common merged options will be very efficient in managing files and options if each individual server setting is set separately in one file.
    6 months ago in z/OS Connect 3 Functionality already exists

    Add the support of required field in APIS Body

    We need to force APIs consummer to provide mandatory fields in the JSON body of an APIS.This is really important for APIS that use a MQ service because in this case we have no way to check fields before the message is PUT in the queue by the servi...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Functionality already exists

    Variable for specifying output length when creating copybook is not created

    ''- When creating a Cobol copybook with the current API specification file (json), a variable for specifying the output length is always created if it is a String.- When creating an outbound copybook, if you give the "characterWhiteSpace" option i...
    11 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

    Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

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