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z/OS Connect

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API Mapping editor - make query parameters optional

Allow GET operations for multiple resources by specifying the query parameters, but they have to be optional, for example if your service allows to get up to 40 accounts, you specify/accounts?id1&id2&id3&id4&id5&id6...&id40...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

zos connect swagger copy past for request body support

We tried to copy past the request body from the z/os connect eclipse swagger gui. Was not possible, as you can not do a copy past on the request structure.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Deploy & Undeploy z/OS Connect EE APIs without the need for Liberty recycles

We need the ability to dynamically deploy new and changed APIs without a recycle of the Liberty Server, as is required today .
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

DB2 REST Services Nullable Fields/Parameters

Support for optional parameters for DB2 REST Services via ZOS Connect
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: simple arithmetic

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

Control over JSON transform stripping out low value '00'/non-printable characters

z/OS Connect JSON transformation should be at user control. There needs to be an option to leave return values in binary if the user so chooses, so that the application can manage the returned content.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Automated build of deployable SAR and AAR from API toolkit projects

Provide an automated way to migrate the services/APIs across different environments while those environments are sharing the same zOS Connect EE to expose RESTful APIs. APIs and services requires unique names on the same server, with this capabili...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Date-Time service interface mapping.

Opportunity : Currently z/OS Connect provides support for mapping for Date and Boolean elements. However; it does not provide support for Date-Time (as defined by OAS standards). The 'idea' is for Date-Time to be introduced an additional mapped el...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support special characters in uri parameters

Support special characters in uri parameters for a GET request. The parameters may contain special characters - examples '+', '-' and '*'. These are encoded/escaped in the uri but zOS Connect should decode them back to the original value before po...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Delivered

z/OS Connect JSON Parser needs to handle large numbers and not round numeric values

When processing a large number (One that is too large to be represented by a signed 64-bit binary value) the IBM JSON parser raises an error - because it regards the value as 'not numeric'. Also, if a number has decimal positions and has more than...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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