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z/OS Connect

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z/OS Connect Designer support on ARM processors

In the Designer documentation (e.g. Create and edit an IBM z/OS Connect API project with Docker Desktop) it is referred to that it can be used on Mac systems, but however, when trying to download the image, this isn't available: jmfernandezp@Josem...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS connect need to support payload compression

Our API requester endpoints support compression (gzip, brotli) by accepting the HTTP header “Accept-Encoding”, to optimize the payload size. We would like z/OS Connect to support compression by honouring the HTTP request header “Accept-Encoding”, ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Upgrade zconbt to accept OpenAPI 3.0 spec input.

Upgrade the ability of the utility zconbt, to accept OpenAPI 3.0 documents, as well as Swagger 2.0 documents when creating .ara files
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

zCEE Native APIC support

Support for retrieving JWT from IBM API Connect: Our API requester endpoints are secured with JWTs. Our organization uses an authorization server fronted by IBM API Connect to obtain JWTs and this is not supported by z/OS Connect. Specifically, th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

External security manager support as an alternative for group access in server.xml

Currently securing API/service access is managed within server.xml. This takes management of security away from our security team and into the hands of systems teams having to maintain and manage the access for every individual API or service. the...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

OpenAPI 3.0 support for API's hosted in z/OS Connect using API Provider

We have many z/OS-hosted APIs that we want to expose to our entire enterprise. Our existing z/OS Connect tooling emits Swagger 2.0 as a description of that API, but our corporate API infrastructure requires OpenAPI 3.0 standard taxonomy. The corpo...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Dynamic Workload Distribution of IPIC traffic from zCEE to CICS

We need to be able to distribute to Multiple CICS Router regions.. Round-Robin would be sufficient.We use Supportpac CA1T for this functionality, in CICS TG and think that would be a great addition to zCEE.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

Timeout HA IPIC connection to CICS

Current IPIC connections to CICS cannot be timed out. In case of outage of a z/OS Connect instance on the same LPAR, the load can only be processed by z/OS Connect and CICS (IPIC connections) on the other LPAR. We want to remove LPAR-specific depe...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Simplified JSON structures when generating bottom-up services from CICS channel applications

The JSON Request and Response structures created for a CICS Channel Service contain nesting levels that complicate the API interface and appear to have little use.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

ability to map multiple response messages with API Requesters

With API Requesters, we need to ability to map multiple API response messages for a given API , with the zconbt tooling, and have the appropriate transform done based upon the http response code. Implicit in this request is the need for transforma...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered