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z/OS Connect

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Config to limit Thread or Connection usage at API/URL level

We have had multiple high severity incidents where degradation of one service for reasons such as latency, looping, database contentions, deadlocks etc ends up quickly (in matter of seconds) exhausting all available threads within z/OS Connect the...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect - gRPC support

z/OS Connect supports the creation/consumption of RESTful APIs. As several customers use gRPC as their internal intercommunication protocol, it would be helpful to have that support also in z/OS Connect.
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

API Requester support for additional content-type

Currently, API Requester only supports a content-type of application/json We have teams that require to be able to call REST APIs with content-types other than the one currently supported:multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplica...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesEnable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changes

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesCurrently, when an API endpoint has new response fields added that an API Consumer does not need, z/OS Connect API Requester will start to fail unless its API Re...
11 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ADD the posbility to use Header in the oAUTH

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support follows the The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework standard: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749fo . This does not specify any header than the Authorization header be flowed on the request. There is no way to confi...
11 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
12 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Update LS2JS code to allow for a string of type json

Update the LS2JS conversion app to include a String type of "json" that would allow for the passing of a JSON payload without transformation and without the addition of quotes. "type":"string", "format":"json" for example the outbound z/OS Connect...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to copy zFS logs to VSAM files

Team, Please add functionality into z/OS Connect code to provide an option to copy the zFS logs to VSAM Files. Thanks, Pawan.
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Global settings for useBearerScheme="false" in server.xml

It can only update one config and effectuate to all zosconnect_authToken elements. The risk for the change would be smaller and it would benefit to both application and support teams.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Allow third party Service Provider interface to set System of Record Data

Customers of monitoring products like OMEGAMON for JVM want to be able to monitor API connections to third party service providers like DVM. The public third party Service Provider interface does populate any of the SoR fields for SMF or intercept...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration