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Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Desire to propagate zCEE API name through to CICS request

When a CICS API request is made via zCEE, different APIs (and API names) have the potential to utilise the same transaction IDs in CICS, making it impossible to properly understand the workload being driven inside CICS in terms of the various zCEE...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

WEB RECEIVE timeout

The WEB RECEIVE timeout value is the RTIMOUT on the profile. We need to be able to dynamically, to controle the timeout value. This could be solved if the WEB RECEIVE was enhanced to include a option 'TIMEOUT' to controle the timeout time. The TIM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

new option TERMBLOK for LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx

Today LOCKTIME only has 2 options ABEND or STATUS. We have the need for a new option TERMBLOK that results ina) terminating the top blocker when timeout threshold is exceeded, i.e. DFSLLKX0 is called b) message DFS2291I being issued to syslogc) th...
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

zCEE - mechanism to pass parameters to zosconnect_authToken

We are using the zCEE to retrieve a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a third-party authorization server and pass it on a request to an API endpoint, as described here:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zosconnect/3.0?topic=jwt-calling-api-secured-third-partyIn ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

CA-7 import via file in project folder

Enhance ADDI to allow CA-7 extracts to be imported via a file in a project folder (no z/OS connection required). Function to work in the same was as you load a CSD file into ADDI.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

zCEE to call SAF for authentication

This is following on from RFE # 99337. Since the last RFE was submitted, the zCEE authorization interceptor has been extended to allow even more groups to be defined for more granular control of the various operations and actions permitted within ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Total business impact during an IMS autoshutdown due to filling SMSGQ.We could decide whether process or not remote message

We would like to have an option to discard the remote pending messages that arrive to the IMS through the MSC Links in case of an automatic IMS shutdown. Our first option would be to have a new parameter (that we would fix during the start of an I...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 52 Not under consideration

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify Policy to test CTG HA exit Routing or Target CICS Region

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify CTG Policy used in HA exit or CICS Target. This would allow for a test of a new CTG HA Policy entry or Target CICS region, prior to being activated for Test/Production workload. This would allow fo...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

To support variable length string json payload for IMS API

Cobol does not have the notion of variable-length string. When a string in the Cobol copybook is mapped to JSON payload for z/OS Connect, it is set with the maximum length. Even when the actual JSON payload is smaller, z/OS Connect sends the full ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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