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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 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 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...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
12 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Allow enablement of TRACE at individual API provider/requester level

To capture TRACE on-demand, Today it is possible only to enable at Server instance level. In Larger Enterprises z/OS Connect EE is utilized as a Shared entity in a SYSPLEX which can be shared my many applications. So, to trace a particular applica...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect should provide appropriate HTTP error codes on errors within z/OS Connect or backend systems

Since a short time it is now possible to define HTTP return codes in z/OS Connect depending on codes the application sends back its response message, but in error Scenarios z/OS Connect still doesn't provide an appropriate HTTP error code. Instead...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

Allow API/SAR Deployment to specified Folder Location

Related to RFE 112082, We envision the Eclipse API toolkit having a pop-up providing an option to specify a location when doing a deploy. It is important that our application developers for each of our lines of business to choose their separate LO...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Provide API Name in addition to field name for GMOMW0005E / GMOMW0021E error in zOS Connect

Currently we are debugging a lot of GMOMW0005E errors and they only provide the field name that encountered the error. Initially these were easy to debug but now that the environment is growing at a rapid pace it is near impossible as the error on...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Validation of API Provider requests against the OpenAPI 3 specification

Enable validation of API Provider requests against the OpenAPI 3 specification. Since this will have a performance overhead, it should be fully configurable.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration