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IBM Host Access Transformation Services

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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...
12 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

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

Newer software support releases for HATS

HATS 9.7 is currently not supported on Windows 2019, only 2016 - this is classed as end of life for Microsoft. There have also been reliability issues with the OS, so it would be better to support this on Windows 2019. Similarly, HATS has not been...
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

HATS Connection profiles need ability to use environment properties

A common issue for HATS is that connection properties need to be tweaked or customized to the particular environment that they are deployed to. This might be because the pooling limits differentiate in an environment, the user id's differentiate i...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

IBM HATS high severity security issue - Session Fixation

Using HATS, the session id (JSESSIONID) created on login page of the application is not changed after successful authentication. Due to this application is vulnerable to high severity security issue - session fixation.
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Provide customizable way to add input attributes at HATS input fields and at HATS form level

As a HATS toolkit user, I need to add custom attribute to all the text input fields on screens rendered by HATS. HATS project default rendering uses “Field” as “Component” and “Widget” for the “Remaining text and input fields”. In the “Text input”...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Documentation for 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

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