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z/OS Connect EE multi-tenancy support

We have versioned Cics applications (with application platform context). This means we have one Program name with multiple versions behind: for example: program - version - (Cics operation/entrypoint) - url PROGA - V1.0 - readCustomer - /customer/...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support the mounting of Keystores in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? (IPIC is used as an example to illustrate the requirement, but the requirement extends to any Keystores that may be required by a z/OS Connect API server.) IPIC security is an important consideration when deploying z/OS Connect A...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Enabling SSL clientauth implies client cert authentication and mapping

With z/OS Connect it is not possible to configure ssl clientauth (configured in server.xml with clientAuthentication="true") without implying that you want to use the client cert as an authentication token and map it to a user in the local registr...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

restful enablement of Java programs with z/OS Connect

Support the restful exposure of Java programs (CICS, IMS, Batch) in a similar way as we support Cobol and PL/I today
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Remove LLZZ for all IMS Services in zOs Connect whatever the size of the Datastructure (>&< 32ko)

We don't want to provide at anytime in the creation process of the service the LLZZ for all IMS Services in zOs Connect whatever the size of the Datastructure (>&< 32ko).Today this is only the case for the dara-structures greater than 32...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced multi-segment message support in IMS service provider for z/OS Connect

IMS supports multi-segment input and output messages. A lot of IMS transactions are using this functionality - especially for output messages. The amount of segments can be large and they can have different structures. Actually the multi-segment m...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Allow requesting APIs asynchronously

Add functionality to the zOSCEE API Requester to allow requesting APIs asynchronously. The original request call should return a token. The response will need to be saved, keyed by the token, for a limited time. The later response call will pass t...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Increased Functionality in the Transform on Response Mappings

Currently the multiple response code transform seems to happen after the IMS response message is placed in given response layout. I would like to request an option to have the transform happen before the IMS response message layout. For Example:If...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration