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z/OS Connect

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Enhance API Requester resilience

To improve API Requester resilence with a tactic similar to Circuit Breaker pattern
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Support for IMS transaction name length required

Our site uses variable length IMS transaction names.The current implementation of the API Toolkit with fix PH09920 allows to specify a transaction name that will either be padded with spaces for a maximum length of 8 characters or if the Space Del...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Provide meaningful error messages for z/OS Connect and API toolkit problems

Currently z/OS Connect provides for a lot of configuration errors, RACF and Unix System Services problems neither an error message in the JES Job Log nor an error message in the messages.log. Often the only way to get an impression of what may be ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

API Requester Security flow jwt-bearer

With the two OAuth flows supported today by z/OS Connect: Client credentials (client_id + client_secret) Resource owner password credentials (client_id + client_secret + username + password) If we want to call a remote API from a mainframe applica...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

zOS Connect enable generics in zosConnectAPI name construct

in order to secure API using the authorizationInterceptor for access by different teams we currently have to specify every API and define the relevant access. With naming standards we can group these much more efficiently using generics for exampl...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Field/Header Validation

Provide basic validation for input API fields.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add the support of required field in APIS Body

We need to force APIs consummer to provide mandatory fields in the JSON body of an APIS.This is really important for APIS that use a MQ service because in this case we have no way to check fields before the message is PUT in the queue by the servi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

Possibility to parameter specific TimeOut by API

Now, ZCEE provides a asyncRequestTimeout parameter which allows to limit the request time for all the API in the server. However, it would be useful to be able to manage exception on an API basis.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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