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    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...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    stopEntity() logging visibility

    For creating HA solution for ZCEE we have implemented Automation solutions by issuing REFRESH commands whenever an API or Services are being installed,updated,deleted etc.We pushed the message codes to the MVS Syslog, and that is how Automation pi...
    7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    IVPs should be provided with the product

    Like in Fault Analyzer, which is offered with transaction CFA that includes IVPs to check its functionality, zOS Connect should also include a provided functional set to enable basic tests - a ping service, the option to expose and publish it, the...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Tool to expose a large number of CA GEN COBOL programs in zOS Connect

    We got hundreds of CICS Cobol programs which were generated from that we expose so far with Cics Transaction Gateway (CTG), and we want to migrate and expose them in zOS Connect. We do that manually, one Cobol by one Cobol, and this process is pre...
    12 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    STDERR DD doesn't have timestamps

    As you can see error messages in STDERR DD don't have date and time. This is not good. It would be very useful to have them. LBGT OUTPUT DISPLAY WLDWINEU STC34821 DSID 102 LINE 0 COLS 02- 133COMMAND INPUT ===> SCROLL ===> CSR****************...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

    We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

    z/OS Connect doesn't have all standard OAUTH provider authentication methods implemented as per RFC 6749 and

    z/OS Connect currently only supports either basic authentication or private key JWT authentication methods ( 2.3.1 . Client Password) in RFC 6749 while authenticating with OAUTH JWT providers to procure the JWT token and inject into the API call. ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    Enhancing z/OS Connect for Dynamic API Integration with JSON Response Handling

    Abstract This document proposes an enhancement to IBM z/OS Connect to support flexible consumption of API responses in JSON format without mandating COBOL copybook regeneration for every API update. This capability aims to streamline integration e...
    12 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    Don't send the empty elements of an array part of Responses

    In an API with an array of 20 elements in Responses, if we got only 5 elements with values we still got 20 elements of which 15 are empty. This 15 empty elements are useless. It would be great to have a way to avoid it by giving, for exemple, a va...
    5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable Data Virtualization Manager (DVM) capabilities on zCEE OAS3

    Under OAS2, zCEE and DVM are able to communicate via WOLA… whenever the connection is established between the two of them, applicable DVM services are installed in and available to zCEE (but only for the duration of the zCEE instance). In addition...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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