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Service level transaction expiry support for IMS OTMA

We would like to give our API developers the capability to specify on OTMA timeout value and activate IMS OTMA transaction expiry. We would like the developer to be able to specify the timeout value and whether to activate transaction expiry or no...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Finer grain client request API Security

The feature request that we'd like IBM to explore is to provide the capability for zOS to be able use claims in an ADFS token to determine whether or not a given request should be given access to an API or Service. At the current moment, Liberty i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Need the support ( "CHAR-VARYING=NO") in API requester design

The client's requirement is CICS1 application invoke outbound API to zCEE then zCEE route the request to another CICS2.The two application in the two CICSs want to use the same REQ/RESP BOOK.The fields in book are all fixed length, so they don't n...
over 6 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enhance SMF 123.1 for API requester to write asserted ID

Currently the header zCEE-ApiRequester-AssertedId is always sent by the stub to z/OS Connect and it's value should be written to SMF 123.1 records for audit purposes.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Move a Path parameter to multiple Service fields

Change the zCEE tooling UI to allow the ability to move a single Path field to multiple Service fields. We have found that we are able to edit the request.map as xml and add this support via this means. For example:<updates> <move> <...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: CONCATENATION

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include fa Concatenate function
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support for Cobol Copybooks with Redefine Clause

Currently most of the core banking applications on mainframe have Cobol copybooks with redefine clause. Due to product limitation this will limit exposing API's for some of the key services.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

ZOS Connect - No error description is returned for length validation on server for IMS APIs

If the Length of input value entered in alphanumeric field exceeds than that of length of field defined at backend/API. Z/OS Connect tool doesn't send any message onto UI, though message is logged onto Server message.Log file. This is happening fo...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Provide back-end data in Interceptor

provide back-end data like application (CICS, IMS, DB2) system, transaction/program for invoked services through the Interceptor mechanism
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

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