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z/OS Connect

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refresh artifacts on server at a more granular level

Currently the console modify command will refresh everything under a server, API, API requester, services as well as config. We would like the ability to refresh at a more granular level via the console command and service API.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity

z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity. z/OS Connect EE is extraordinary product that allows mainframe programs and assets to be accessed and consumed as APIs. With the ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Persist connections between IMS and z/OS Connect EE in API requester scenario

Allow to persist connections between the IMS MPR and z/OS Connect EE for better performance and avoid doing too many SSL handshakes (if the connection is using HTTPS).
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

About processing of multiple layout of host side response message with z/OS Connect (MQSP)

System: z/OS Connect EE (MQSP)Actor: Card members, non-members, merchant users(It is necessary to access backbone data which is a legacy application) Customers are requesting that legacy MQ applications are published and offered in API format usin...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: substring operations

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include substring operations
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Plugins needed to generate deployable zOS Connect artifacts

We need a command line utility( java/batch) or preferably a Gradle plugin from IBM which can be used to generate the deployable artifacts on non Z/OS build system.For example:-A java/batch/Gradle plugin which can generate .SAR/.AAR and related dep...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support envFrom (k8s ConfigMap variable) in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? - The CR schema already supports the ConfigMap env variable, which provides fine-grained control when assigning ConfigMap-defined environment variables. envFrom is a simpler and quicker alternative which enables all of a ConfigMa...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Reference to individual array member in the mapper

z/OS Connect API Toolkit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Require the ability to convert an OCCURS table to individual fields in a Service so that each occurrence of a field can be individually included, named, and referenced from the using API. For example, we ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect audit interceptor does not record query parameter

When using the audit interceptor a SMF type 123 subtype 1 record is created, but that SMF record doesn't contain the query parameter of the HTTP request. The "Target URI" data only contains the path and that may not be sufficient enough to know wh...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Support over 32KB z/OS Connect EE API Requester payload size for IMS application

Currently, z/OS Connect API Requester can support only up to 32KB payload size when the caller is an IMS application. My client wants to use an IMS application to access an API Provider whose return payload size can be up to 50 KB
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered