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IBM Host Access Transformation Services

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Single SingOn for HATS WEB connections. We need it for MIDAS Core banking SSO

Problem description: We are using a WebSphere based banking application Midas Bank Fusion (from MISYS). User do connect to WAS using browser. WAS is using IBM-I for authentication and Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) to integrate with 52...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

Permit SAF keyrings to be used instead of jks files for host connection.

Currently HATS requires a jks files to be used if the host connection is secure. When the HATS application is deployed on z/OS in WAS the SAF keyrings should be used either as a default or a method to switch when deploying. This is required due to...
11 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

HATS parsing of data in services response for index variables

When HATS returns data in a service response for an indexed variable, it returns the data as a single string with all of the data concatenated together. This is difficult to consume and not at all what is expected in a service (either SOAP or REST...
about 5 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Not under consideration

Change PopUp Cursor

When i use Subfile with Popup the code for the PopUp Picture is:<img src="/HELLWEB/common/images/validValues.gif" onclick="popup('HATSForm_in_1724_1')" alt="Werte..." onmouseover="this.style.cursor='hand';">It would be better when you could ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Support HTML

WIth the advent of HTML 5 capable browsers, HATS should support new HTML5 syntax and elements, and should eliminate deprecated HTML elements.HATS should also provide CSS layout over Table based layout to further support HTML 5 layouts.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Not under consideration

HATS

When generating a new terminal session to IBM i using HATS, we use wildcards ("=") in the device name (instead of the system generic "Q'''" device names) We have however discovered that if we use two or more wildcards in device name, devices are n...
over 10 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 5 Not under consideration

CSRF filters for Webfacing applications

As discussed with an IBM representative, the CSRF filters are not available for Webfacing applications as of now. Hence, token based validation (CSRF) can't be enabled for Webfacing applications. In relation to this, IBM's L3 team's recommendation...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

Containerization of HATS projects

System: HATSActor: Official support for HATS containers HATS is a commonly used product that provides Host Access modernization. HATS projects are normally web applications that are deployed to an application server and accessed over a browser. De...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Support for JAX RS 2.1

HATS 9.7.1 does not support JAX RS 2.1.This can result in JSON output that has erroneous data in it, significantly growing the payload size. Support case TS005196179 details examples and such. Please add support for JAX RS 2.1
almost 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

HATS User List -- User selection enhancement

We are experiencing an issue with our connect macro, our connect macro made use of a user list If by mistake any of the IDs on the user list has a typo, that connection fails to be established which in turn causes that connection to never end and ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release