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z/OS Connect

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Allow modification of minItems in API Toolkit while defining a service

This is a request to add an advanced option to the z/OS Connect API Toolkit to allow a consumer to choose/set the minItems value during a service creation. This setting would force the api toolkit to generate schema that force minItems to 0, inste...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Omit low-valued numerics: New advanced output option for z/OS Connect services.

We want to have a new service advanced output option like "Omit low-valued numerics". Or we want to have the "Omit fields with uniform byte values 0x00" advanced output option to take effect on numeric fields as it does on non-numeric field ? It n...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking

Enhance the z/OS Connect Configuration to Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking. This could be provided via a new parameter to instead check a RACF class such as EJBROLE as already done for the "safRoleMapper" statemen...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

High Availability Worload with IPIC

Need a real High Availability Worload when connecting zcee and CICS with IPIC. Not just fail over.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Update IMS Data bases directly via a Z/OS Connect EE API/Service without using an IMS transaction

We have customers who are interested in using ZOS Connect EE APIs and Services to update their IMS data bases directly without having to use an IMS transaction. We currently have Z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition installed in house. We also are usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Make it possible to send an empty body with other http response code then 204 (no content)

Seems that when you use http response code other than 204 and you remove the body in your mapping that there is always a body of the tags above.It should be possible to define whether you want a body or not. For example: we want to use 202 without...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Remove parent tags from input and output bodies

When you make a API with an input body (JSON), you always have to give the parent tags of the service instead to those that really are related to the content of what you want.Same for the output body (JSON), where those parent tags are always show...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Suppress or obfuscate queryString in SMF123 records

Currently SMF123 records expose query parameters in RESTFUL requests as queryStrings. Enterprises using Z/OS Connect EE should have the option to suppress or obfuscate queryStrings in SMF123 records to both ensure that comply with GDPR / DP / PSD2...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Require a RESTful api to deploy policy files

We have a requirement for a RESTful api to deploy policy files
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

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