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Dynamic Workload Distribution of IPIC traffic from zCEE to CICS

We need to be able to distribute to Multiple CICS Router regions.. Round-Robin would be sufficient.We use Supportpac CA1T for this functionality, in CICS TG and think that would be a great addition to zCEE.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

External security manager support as an alternative for group access in server.xml

Currently securing API/service access is managed within server.xml. This takes management of security away from our security team and into the hands of systems teams having to maintain and manage the access for every individual API or service. the...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Simplified JSON structures when generating bottom-up services from CICS channel applications

The JSON Request and Response structures created for a CICS Channel Service contain nesting levels that complicate the API interface and appear to have little use.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Upgrade zconbt to accept OpenAPI 3.0 spec input.

Upgrade the ability of the utility zconbt, to accept OpenAPI 3.0 documents, as well as Swagger 2.0 documents when creating .ara files
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Timeout HA IPIC connection to CICS

Current IPIC connections to CICS cannot be timed out. In case of outage of a z/OS Connect instance on the same LPAR, the load can only be processed by z/OS Connect and CICS (IPIC connections) on the other LPAR. We want to remove LPAR-specific depe...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API When a client submits an API request to z/OS Connect, it receives a response (with JSON payload), and an HTTP status code. However, the status code does not reflect any non-fatal...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

ability to map multiple response messages with API Requesters

With API Requesters, we need to ability to map multiple API response messages for a given API , with the zconbt tooling, and have the appropriate transform done based upon the http response code. Implicit in this request is the need for transforma...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

OpenAPI 3.0 support for API's hosted in z/OS Connect using API Provider

We have many z/OS-hosted APIs that we want to expose to our entire enterprise. Our existing z/OS Connect tooling emits Swagger 2.0 as a description of that API, but our corporate API infrastructure requires OpenAPI 3.0 standard taxonomy. The corpo...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Authentication and identity propagation for API Requesters

It's impossible to flow an identity end to end in the case of outbound, while for inbound it's smooth and allows to integrate heterogenous systems (Windows, Siebel, etc.) using standard modern protocols. All currently proposed authentication metho...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

fieldformat not changed - case sensitive

We imported a pl/1 Structur. After import alle the fields in lower case changed to uppercase, this is not nice, because the developper has to change the format every time he changes the service. It would be good if the fields keep the format defin...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Delivered

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