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z/OS Connect

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IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE)

Provide direct IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect via REST/JSON APIs.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Pass Application credentials when using z/OS Connect for DB2

As part of a PoC on z/OS Connect specifically calling to DB2, it was found that the application credentials are not being passed all the way through to DB2. Over the last several years we have changed our Security model with things like DB2 Stored...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect Admin Services for CICS Service Provider

The z/OS Connect Admin services call for a CICS Service Provider only responds with the CICS Program name that was defined in the Service. I would like the CICS Tran id and Connection Reference that were specified when the Service was created to a...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect to fall back to basic authentication if certificate is for an unauthorized user

Currently it appears that if a program running in CICS does not specify to send a client certificate, CICS is then sending it's certificate to z/OS Connect. In our case this ID does not have invoke access to the API so the attempt fails at that po...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Support for Cobol Decimal fields 9(x).9(y)

We require support for the mapping of real decimal fields in Cobol -- in the form of PIC 9(x).9(y)..
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

lightweight VS Code plugin for API editor

rolling out and adoption of eclipse based IDZ IDE has been very difficult due to the size, complexity and performance, so is the z/OS Connect API editor
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Z/OS Connect to have option to allow mainframe clients response data to be returned without JSON conversion

Z/OS Connect to have an option to allow mainframe clients response body data to be returned to the calling program without going through JSON to copy code conversion. Currently there are two issues with how the JSON to copy code conversion is hand...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Top Down Workflow

We have a pure top down approach for zos / connect This means we have a yaml or json file with the api definition. Out of this definition zconbt should create structures and members. The developer should just code the empty gaps. zconbt should be ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Data Conversion issue for array elements in input - z/OS Connect

As per the testing at DNB, CHAR type of data variables gets converted to LOW-VALUES when they are missing from payload but the same CHAR type of variables are converted to ‘SPACES' when they are used as part of array in input and missing from payl...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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