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z/OS Connect

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Request zCEE to ignore undefined new/changed fields

Request zOS Connect to ignore the fields in the API response that are not part of .ara definition for API requestore scenario, so clients no need to rebuild .era files to accommodate the new/changed fields. Current zOS Connect error message when n...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

API First should deliver copybook only without project structure

When running the zC EE Gradle build with the option to only deliver a copybook, the entire project structure gets delivered as well. The creation and editing of a service should include developer relevant aspects only. This project structure has n...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enable SMF Record Population in OAS3 Run-Time

OAS2 Run-time currently populates SMF records for performance and execution data. This same capability needs to be present in the OAS3 Run-time for all similar data.
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Supply a war file for Catalog Manager when using zosconnect to create OpenAPI 3 native server

In OpenAPI 2, Catalog Manager sample template is supported by "zosconnect create catalogManager --template=zosconnect:sampleCicsIpicCatalogManager". We would like to see the same for OpenAPI 3 "zosconnect create" command. This will allow us verify...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support envFrom (k8s ConfigMap variable) in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? - The CR schema already supports the ConfigMap env variable, which provides fine-grained control when assigning ConfigMap-defined environment variables. envFrom is a simpler and quicker alternative which enables all of a ConfigMa...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Show the authToken id / authServerRef information for RESTful API. Error in messages.log

When encounter RESTful API error only the following message would show in messages.log, to further investigate, it needs to turn on the trace log. Therefore, our customer is asking if it can show more useful information such as authToken id / auth...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Suport for IBM CCSID 1379 (Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters)

There is constant request over a couple of years for this CCSID to be supported for our businesses in Hong Kong. Appreciate if you can consider adding this support as soon as possible.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect to fall back to basic authentication if certificate is for an unauthorized user

Currently it appears that if a program running in CICS does not specify to send a client certificate, CICS is then sending it's certificate to z/OS Connect. In our case this ID does not have invoke access to the API so the attempt fails at that po...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow z/OS requester to ignore fields not defined to the service

Currently we have requestor that calls a mulesoft service. The mule service was updated to add new fields but the z/OS connect service was not. As a result the requester fails as it doesnt know about these fields. The z/OS connect service doesn't ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Full ARRAY and STRUCT support in IMS Database Service Provider

We require IMS Database Service Provider services to support complex segments with (non-nested) ARRAY fields with many instances and many values per instance (which may be of different data types), using un-flattened array representation, with aut...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered