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z/OS Connect

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Add warning messages when reaching the number of connections (ZCEE Monitoring)

the impact of z/OS connect in our company is very important and can cause a shutdown of our customers services and this can have a negative impact on our zsystems for our business line Our z/OS sub systems have already some metrics that are self m...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit and the Windows Certificate Manager

Certificate management via the Windows Certificate Manager for the z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (Eclipse plug-in).
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Policy based routing for API Requesters

We would like the ability to use policy based routing to direct API Requesters to specific API Connect endpoints. I believe this would involve adding a new valid property for use for API Requesters. For example: EndpointConnectionRefThe ID of the ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

modify BAQSMFP to provide CSV delimited output options

Currently the sample library contains program BAQSMFP to format SMF123 T1 V1 and V2 records. Could this be enhanced to also produce CSV delimited files for V1 and V2 records to simplify consumption by other tools.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Generate Swagger file in YAML format

For outbound services, zos connect supports swagger in both JSON and YAML format. Is it possible as well for Inbound Services we can make some configuration to state if the generated Swagger should be in JSON or YAML format.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Support for Multiple Versions

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (3.0.60 - current version) along with z/OS Connect EE 3.0.24, doesn't support Multiple version Naming for IMS or CICS APIs created. Though there are different fields available for 'Name' and 'version', while generating ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Headers needed to pass a Security scan

We need the following headers added to the Response XML for zOS Connect (these are the Secure scan findings). Similar to how they were added for the CICS hosted services. issue name-Missing "X-Content-Type-Options" header (Vul count-1)cause:: It i...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Display deployed ApiRequesters in zOSExplorer plugin

In the zOSConnect EE plugin in Eclipse(zOS Explorer). Please show the existing apiRequesters for the zCEE server. The admin api(s) for retrieving is already there( /zosConnect/apiRequesters/ ) etc...?
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect API Requester support for application/HAL+JSON

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis-administration/api/hal Currently, API Requester does not have integration with application/HAL-JSON, which causes the callers of APIS that use HAL+JSON to manually modify the swagger to define the HAL respons...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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