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z/OS Connect

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TimeBoxing BAQCSTUB in IMS transactions

IMS transactions have high performance with very short process time measured in milliseconds. When they are enhanced to make outbound API calls using BAQCSTUB, they are subjected to latency from the network and the API providers. Currently, parame...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Custom Content-Type for Authorization Server Header

I am working with IBM Connect Enterprise Edition version 3.0.48. We would like a way to customize the content-type header that is being sent to get a JWT from our specified authorization server. The authorization server we are using is built as a ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect EE 3.x - SMF 123 enhancement to capture failure events

Part of enhancing SMF 123 record structure for z/OS Connect (both API provider and API requester), Please consider to capture ONLY the first failure (similar to FFDC) related data for any repeated USER enforced failures.. Eg., Authorization failur...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to connect to z/OS Connect API Toolkit with MFA

When login, we are using a MFA password composed with a personal code followed by a single-use token.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow api key as credentials in host connection

Add 'api key' as an option on credentials for a host connection in the z/os explorer.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Support Multiple IP-addresses in z/OS Connect EE

Our client is making an outbound API call from CICS using z/OS Connect EE. Client's API team presented us with three IP-addresses for their API server. The addresses was pointed to the same server with each corresponding to an availability zone fo...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect MQ one-way notification

z/OS Connect 1-Way operation MQPut. When a request is processed the MQPut successfully writes the message to the queue but no response is returned to the browser to confirm the request failed or was successful.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide XML support in z/OS Connect EE

We would like the capability of using XML-based transformations in addition to JSON..
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 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.
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

specification error in API POST body results in token validation error, while we expect a specification error

To test one of our API's we deliberately changed the body of an API POST. When doing that the customer gets an HTTP 500 error and ZCEE signals a security related error message (token validation error) while we expect a specification error.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration