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z/OS Connect

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

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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

IBM z/OS Connect 3.0 support of a OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

Looking for zOS Connect 3.0 to support OAS 3.1 specs as an apiRequester Currently the apiRequester plugin does NOT support the consumption/parsing of an OAS 3.1 spec (per IBM doc) Below from (Release notes - IBM Documentation) Known issues and lim...
11 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Support outbound CICS --> REST API (OpenAPI v3) calls using a containerized solution on OpenShift

Currently the exposure of OpenAPI 3 REST APIs inbound to z/OS is supported on openshift x86 containerized architecture. Outbound calls from CICS to the REST API (OpenAPI v3) instead require the runtime to be installed on z/OS. This generates a dup...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

z/OS Connect 3.0 - Enforce authentication through server instead of / additional to API security role

Enforce authentication either through the security role defined in the OpenAPI specification (x-ibm-zcon-roles-allowed) or through a default role defined / forced by the server configuration. Therefore it would be possible to prevent APIs without ...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Support for Java 17/21 in BAQLS2JS

Currently BAQLS2JS only runs with Java 8. Running BAQLS2JS with Java 11 and later results in exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.activation.DataHandler.EOS of Java 8 is Sep.30 2026 and customers will not be able to run BAQLS2JS after t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Add Response Payloads to IBMJMXConnectorREST APIs

Currently the JMXConnectorREST APIs return no response payloads, only the HTTPS response codes. We would like to use the APIs for administering z/OS Connect server artifacts, however, without response payloads it is difficult to do so. A 200 or 20...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Only start APIs / API requesters, which have been properly loaded

Currently it can happen, that z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3.0 servers start APIs or API requesters, which haven't been properly loaded. The following sample is from a cluster of two z/OS Connect servers. A new API was deployed into the shared apps direct...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Enable a java stub to make an API requester call direct from a java programme

Java isn't new on zOS yet zOS Connect seems to be behind the curve in support for java applications hosted on zOS. This request is to provide a stub like concept for use by java programs to enable them to call out to REST API endpoints directly wi...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

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