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z/OS Connect

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z/OS connect need to support payload compression

Our API requester endpoints support compression (gzip, brotli) by accepting the HTTP header “Accept-Encoding”, to optimize the payload size. We would like z/OS Connect to support compression by honouring the HTTP request header “Accept-Encoding”, ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Planned for future release

Need API Requester Project creation in IDz

The Service and API archive projects are created using the primary menu option, File, and selecting “z/OS Connect EE Service Project” or “z/OS Connect EE API Project” respectfully in IDz. Using these functions generates projects specially setup fo...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

Override ConnectionRef in .ara file to address multiple RESTFul endpoints

API Requester scenario. 2 different environments , SVIL1 and SVIL2, sharing the same ZCNEE instance. There are 2 RESTful endpoints, one for SVIL1 and one for SVIL2 (they can also be API managers, like APIConnect) The same CICS program is deployed ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future 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...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future 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.
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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Not under consideration