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z/OS Connect

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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...
almost 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.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...?
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under 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...
almost 5 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...
almost 2 years 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.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 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.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Include the Liberty dispatch time within z/OS Connect SMF and monitor data (e.g. Omeagamon for JVM and OEM vendors just as Dynatrace)

Without the Liberty Dispatch time we have had instances of large amounts of time in our API call chain being unaccounted for. We had a recent incident with IBM (TS010301362) to assist in identifying what appeared to be a random 5 second spike in r...
almost 2 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.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

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