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z/OS Connect

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Apply service level authorization to API path requests

If I protect a service using the authorization interceptor I would expect the interceptor to also be invoked if I invoke an API path that calls the service.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Include failed requests in Interceptor

Customer wishes to gather data on failed API requests as well as successful ones in OMEGAMON for JVM. The Interceptor is not currently invoked indicating failed transactions, or provide failure reasons (exceptions, error codes)
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

API specific policy rules

The API policy introduced in zCEE V 3.0.3 is a useful feature for customers with multiple IMS data centers. However the rules are applicable to all APIs in the server and no nested conditions is allowed.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

HTTP 4* vs HTTP 500 when encountering messages GMOMW*

Actually, when an error is related to conversion of transaction message bytes to JSON (message GMOMW0005E or any other messages GMOMW* ), zOS Connect emits an HTPP 500 error. Can we have a less drastic error, as an HTTP 422 i.e. ?
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Copy Replacing : Automatic changes for existing copy

See Use Case.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Option to tolerant uninitialised / SPACE data in numberic fields during dataxform transformation

z/OS Connect will reject a data stream if any field does not comply with the data types as defined in the Copybook. The customer application response messages may contain SPACES in numeric fields under certain circumstances by design and will fail...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Provide utility to format/browse audit records

For z/OS Connect V1 the utility bbomsmfv can be used to format and print audit records (SMF type 120.11). Additional audit fields ave been added with z/OS Connect EE and the SMF type is now 123.1. Is it possible to have a similar utility to format...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support for >32K structures in IMS (message based structures instead of segment based structures in API)

Currently the z/OS Connect EE and IMS Mobile solution are designed to work with traditional IMS segment layouts, specifically requiring LLZZ prefixes. This implies that message structures exceeding 32K in size are not supported, unless they are ma...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Ability to build APIs on a REST service in zCEE

zOS Connect Enterprise Edition supports the ability to proxy a REST request to a backend server. Would request that zCEE be have ability to be able to create APIs in the API Editor on REST requests available in backend servers.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

api mapping supports character replace

replace character when api mappingeg. replace 0 with blank.
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered