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z/OS Connect

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Error message in JOBLOG and automatic reconnection ZCEE/ANGEL

Actually, if ZCEE is started when no ANGEL process started the following message is issued CWWKB0101I: The angel process is not available. No authorized services will be loaded. The reason code is 1. But it's only issued in message.log file in USS...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Access to http headers in CICS-based service provider programs when called via CICS-Embedded zCEE

http headers are available to the provider program when called via native CICS WebServices as well as from a standalone zCEE (leveraging WOLA's linkTaskChanCtxContHttpHeaders parameter) This capability is not supported by the CICS-Embedded zCEE im...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support multiple OCCURS DEPENDING ON clauses in LS2JS transform

Enhance the LS2JS transformation to support multiple OCCURS DEPENDING ON clauses within the response copybook. The current limitation is that we can only have one OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause in a response copybook and it must be the last major elem...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

specify non keyboard printable characters in zOSCEE

IMS Enterprise Explorer for Development allows to specify non keyboard printable characters as escape sequences to be specified as JSON input, however its not possible to specify those escape sequences as constant values into the service interface.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

API Mapping Editor - Allow query parameters with multiple values

Allow query parameters that can contain multiple values, for example/accounts?ids leading to /accounts?ids=1234,5678,9999...Currently we don't support dissecting this parameter.A workaround would be to map the "ids" parameter to a single string in...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE to add support for basic authentication without requiring CLIENT-CERT

We are using zConnect (FMID HZCN200) to run IMS mobile feature pack services. We have IHS (web server) frontend the zConnect server. Most of our traffic will go through IHS to zConnect server. In our development environment we allow users to go di...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

zconbt support for string format 'date' in swagger

Need support for string format 'date' in zconbt API Requester generation. We would like the Cobol generation in the same fashion as format 'date-time'.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect: set dynamic code page selection by a header value

z/OS Connect: set dynamic code page selection by a header value When invoking a service in z/OS Connect EE, dynamically select the code page translation based on a HTTP request header value. i.e. The client sends a request via the Invoke URLSend a...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Remove requirement to use bundled WOLA libraries for CICS

Remove requirement to use bundled WOLA libraries for CICS For z/OS Connect, Remove requirement to use bundled WOLA libraries for CICS. Similar to RFE 85601, allow the use of WOLA libraries for CICS supplied by the client. You can set minimum requi...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

map/rename DB2RestfulServices respose in zCEE

When connecting a DB2Rest service we need the ability to rename/remap/filter the response structure.Today the "ResultSet Output" item is always there - ugly.There is a mapping feature in the tool, but all that happens is that the swagger is change...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered