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Add caching capability for non-JWT style token

We are starting to utilise IMS and CICS as API requesters and we are considering the future performance of our infrastructure. We have a concern about our authentication pattern which we think will add overhead to our API requestor flow. The...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

TLVLOG output

It would be useful to create another way of Dataset to collect the output of TLVLOG. This new way could allow to collect it in several datasets that would avoid to have a huge sequential dataset with all the TLVLOG from long time. For example, a GDG.
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API When a client submits an API request to z/OS Connect, it receives a response (with JSON payload), and an HTTP status code. However, the status code does not reflect any non-fatal...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

JSONPUT generate special value null

Please provide the ability to generate keyword ‘null’ when a value is empty.Suggest a new attribute JSONNULL or similar. This would be mutually exclusive of JSONOMIT but could use the same criteria – empty/zero-length string or zero. Alternatively...
9 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

JSONPUT suppress empty array occurrences

Reference case TS015700520 Please provide ability to suppress empty occurrences of arrays when using JSONPUT* functions. If any element of the array is present, provide that array occurrence. If all elements of an array are empty, suppress the gen...
9 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Improve startup time of build environment groovyz

For builds with a small build lists - such as user builds or feature branch builds, the startup time for the environment of groovyz (including JAVA and the interpretation of the groovy scripts) takes a significant time. While the personal or share...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

WAS Liberty for z/OS tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction which connects between WAS Liberty on z/OS and Db2 for z/OS via JDBC Type 2.Competitor is Dynatrace which supports WAS Liberty on z/OS but out customer wants to use IBM Instana if this support will be ad...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

fieldformat not changed - case sensitive

We imported a pl/1 Structur. After import alle the fields in lower case changed to uppercase, this is not nice, because the developper has to change the format every time he changes the service. It would be good if the fields keep the format defin...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Delivered

Suport for IBM CCSID 1379 (Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters)

There is constant request over a couple of years for this CCSID to be supported for our businesses in Hong Kong. Appreciate if you can consider adding this support as soon as possible.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

add a configurable timer and max. number of request to the audit interceptor to force writing SMF123V2 record

add a configurable timer and a configurable max. number of requests to the audit interceptor, that will flush the queue and write the SMF123V2 record as configured by the customer
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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