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    Add warning messages when reaching the number of connections (ZCEE Monitoring)

    the impact of z/OS connect in our company is very important and can cause a shutdown of our customers services and this can have a negative impact on our zsystems for our business line Our z/OS sub systems have already some metrics that are self m...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    z/OS Connect EE authorization interceptor process improvement

    z/OS Connect EE's authorization interceptor process internally requires all RACF GROUPs associated with the RACF ID that may belong to either Global Reader Group, Invoke Group, Operator Group, Reader Group to carry unique USS GID for successful va...
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

    The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    Unable to pass headers for OAUTH2 apiRequester

    Customer has an api requestor that is configured to use oauth2 but the JWT provider requires a scope parm and a http header Client-Application be sent. Looking to do this in the server.xml.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

    it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    Support for character escaping in API requester scenario

    To call some services we are required to avoid certain characters, such as the comma and such, which may exist in the COBOL input strings, and replace them in the JSON by standard symbols such as ' . We thought of using an interceptor to ...
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    Make it possible to send an empty body with other http response code then 204 (no content)

    Seems that when you use http response code other than 204 and you remove the body in your mapping that there is always a body of the tags above.It should be possible to define whether you want a body or not. For example: we want to use 202 without...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Remove parent tags from input and output bodies

    When you make a API with an input body (JSON), you always have to give the parent tags of the service instead to those that really are related to the content of what you want.Same for the output body (JSON), where those parent tags are always show...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Raise more error details to calling client

    When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

    Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE.

    Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Give the option of using the embedded version OR the client version of the runtime. Currently z/OS Connect comes with an embedded Liberty runtime which is located away fro...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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