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z/OS Connect

Bidirectional Hebrew support for z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0

At the moment bidirectional (BIDI) Hebrew support is only available for CICS API providers running in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.There is a critical need of BIDI support for (CICS) API providers and requesters in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0, as otherwise...
4 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

Support IBM MQ Service Provider in z/OS Connect V3.0 (OpenAPI 3.0)

Currently, z/OS Connect V3.0 supports OpenAPI 3.0, but it lacks the native IBM MQ Service Provider that was available in z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition V2.0 (OpenAPI 2.0). Many enterprise sites rely heavily on z/OS Connect to expose mainframe MQ-...
5 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

I’d like you to enable Base64 encoding.

I’d like you to make it possible to use Base64 encoding to prevent truncation, alteration, or garbling when setting values in JSON that may contain control characters or arbitrary bytes in the 0x00–0xFF range, and/or to embed (serialize) images, k...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect Functionality already exists

Enhancement to Liberty feature mpOpenAPI-2.0 to filter OpenAPI documentation for a single API application.

Enhance the Liberty feature mpOpenAPI-2.0 to provide a mechanism to be able to view only the OpenAPI documentation for one specific deployed API application, when viewing the OpenAPI documentation served from the <host>:<port>/openapi ...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

Update audit interceptor to set SMF123S1_CLIENT_IP_ADDR to value of X-Forwarded-For when available

Where requests are routed through load balancers and gateways the current SMF123S1_CLIENT_IP_ADDR value does not reflect the true IP address of the client, rather it holds the value of the gateway/load balancer. We require to know the true value w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Capabilty for an "Allow List" to be added to HTTP definition

Looking for ability on how to control where the traffic executing a API Provider defined to our Native zOS Connect Server . In a perfect world ALL would follow guidance and rules ... but a las we don't currently live in that world. Need the toolin...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Functionality already exists

To add maxLength validation on Date/time fields during copybook and WAR file generation

Currently z/OS Connect gives below error when maxLength keyword is provided along with Date/time fields.We have this keyword from the non z/OS APIs we consume . BAQP0017W: Failed to process operation (operationId: getRelationBasic, path: /v1/CRM/R...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Update z/OS Connect Designer to handle oneOf keyword

Currently when converting JSON API into z/OS Connect Designer we encountered and issue that "oneOf" with 2 possible responses are not handled. It loads ok in the designer, but the part in the designer where you do the 200 response mapping shows no...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Allow JSON passthrough for API Requester calls from z/OS Connect3.

It would be nice if it was possible to enable JSON passthrough in z/OS Connect3 instead of the interface being the generated request and response cobol copies that the gradle plugin creates. Then we could have the real API request and API response...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

Implement internal client certificate handling in BAQCSTUB for Outbound API Requesters

Our z/OS connect instances require client certificate logins, which affects also local batches that utilize BAQCSTUB implementation. We have security requirements that different batches must utilize their own client certificates for their authoriz...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Under review