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z/OS Connect

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More options in policy selection

In a policy, would it be possible to implement a rule with a 'not equal' condition for example something like <header name="CICS-target" valuenot="CICS0001"/> and/or a way to set a rule for a not match condition. I know we can use a default ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Z/OS CONNECT EE service usable to more then one cics within one server

Currently the same z/os connect service can be used in multiple z/os connect server. So a service can be deployed over multiple servers However if you have for example a TEST1 and TEST2 CICS connected to the same z/os connect server you cannot dep...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Implement support for Enterprise PL/I data structures that pad data items aligned on byte, fullword or double word boundaries

Issue is well documented in the support case ID TS003305508. Here is an example from it: Kopio: Varjus Petteri T <petteri.t.varjus@kela.fi>; Huhtala Ahti <ahti.huhtala@kela.fi>; Laakso Tero <tero.laakso@kela.fi>; Jousmäki Timo &l...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Putting z/OS Connect Designer docker image onto Docker Hub

Due to company policy, we are only allowed to download docker image from Docker Hub or gcr.io. It will take a very long time and go thru some lengthy processes to get the approval and set-up in place for pulling docker image from IBM Container Reg...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add additional properties to policy rules

Today with z/OS Connect policy files you can only use headers to make a decision on which CICS transaction and connection to use. What we are needing is a way to use the headers and other information such as the API operation, path, method e.g. to...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Propagate JWT in a chained API flow between inbound to Z and outbound from Z

We need the JWT that is verified with Liberty & z/OS Connect for an API with CICS/IMS service provider to be carried forward or propagated when that provider becomes an API requester to another Rest API on another platform.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Simple administration API to validate service provider connection

z/OS Connect Connect provides simple REST APIs to administer APIs ".../zosConnect/apis" and services ".../zosConnect/services". Something similar to query configured service providers and the health of the backend middleware connect would be extre...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer Access Control

IMS Explorer is eclipse based solution which is used to define connection and interaction profiles to target IMS systems along with service and transaction definitions. As these two activities are performed by different roles. Fine grain access co...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide update to ZCEE request and response payloads in interceptors

Provide update access to the request and response payloads within an interceptor module. This is to provide simple support for encryption / decryption, tokenization, and other security functions. The data would be decrypted by the pre-invoke metho...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Restore previous API status after z/OS Connect restart

When restarting z/OS Connect it starts every API which has been deployed to it not matter if it was started or stopped before the shutdown. We would like z/OS Connect to restore the status an API had before the shutdown.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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