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    When capturing HTTP Headers in SMF123, allow for suppression of headerName.

    Currently the headers are added in <headerName>:<headerValue> pairs with a 64 byte limit. Please allow for the optional ability to have the name suppressed, ie, to only log the header value.
    9 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    Auto mapping

    Considering that there will be many fields, manually linking/mapping needs lots of efforts. If customer provide a mapping information (such like excel where API field name and COBOL field name are provided), can the toolkit imports excel file and ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Planned for future release

    Update CICS Service Provider to produce connector statistics

    We would like to be able to monitor the connection statistics for the CICS SOR backends and whilst the IMS provider does use JCA, the CICS provider does not and therefore no JCA MXBean is provided which would allow z/OS Connect to gather the stati...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    In OAS3, we still need a method to develop services using program communication areas to generate services from existing processes

    The yaml OAS3 input document is not something most mainframe developers would have knowledge of how to develop correctly. However, they know how existing process and programs are working. Since a significant use of z/OS Connect is to expose access...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    z/OS Connect - EntireX - Natural integration

    It is requested to enhance the z/OS Connect product to provide API-REST interfaces to Natural modules and to allow API-REST interfaces to be invoked from Natural modules.Currently, the product is designed to provide API-REST interfaces to COBOL pr...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    Import COBOL copybook in lowercase

    When uploading a cobol copybook into a new API Service Project, all attributes are in uppercase although the copybook was in lowercase.We have to change every attribute to lowercase because of the standards at the customer.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

    Remove empty fields from API responses

    In the OpenAPI3 z/OS Connect Designer, there is currently no way to remove empty fields (i.e. "abcd" : "") from the API response. The OpenAPI2 API toolkit allowed us to easily do this. It would be beneficial performance wise to remove such fields ...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    Make z/OS Connect policy support more flexible

    z/OS Connect policy support currently is very limited. All rules are based on conditions on HTTP headers. The configuration parameter values which overwrite the original ones in the service archive can only be fix values or values containing the v...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

    Prevent duplicate authentication in z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.0

    When you fail to authenticate with a z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2.0 server you'll see two CWWKS2907E messages for a single authentication attempt in the messages.log showing you, that the authentication fails twice. When you use RACF for authentication ...
    5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

    Maintain variable names when importing copybooks from API Toolkit

    '- When loading copybook from API Toolkit, the "-" (Dash) character is changed to "_" (Underbar). M/F standard variable name naming rules are different from the standardization issue and can become a point of failure due to developer's error. (ex)...
    11 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

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