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z/OS Connect

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CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from zCEE, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from zCEE and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from zCEEChannel. Have zCEE and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Co...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Functionality already exists

z/OS Connect EE - Support for Multiple Versions

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (3.0.60 - current version) along with z/OS Connect EE 3.0.24, doesn't support Multiple version Naming for IMS or CICS APIs created. Though there are different fields available for 'Name' and 'version', while generating ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

modify BAQSMFP to provide CSV delimited output options

Currently the sample library contains program BAQSMFP to format SMF123 T1 V1 and V2 records. Could this be enhanced to also produce CSV delimited files for V1 and V2 records to simplify consumption by other tools.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Headers needed to pass a Security scan

We need the following headers added to the Response XML for zOS Connect (these are the Secure scan findings). Similar to how they were added for the CICS hosted services. issue name-Missing "X-Content-Type-Options" header (Vul count-1)cause:: It i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Improving z/OS Connect resilience

To wrap outbound API calls with Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead patterns provided by Liberty mpFaultTolerance-2.0 feature
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect AT-TLS Aware/Controlling

z/OS Connect as AT-TLS Aware or Controlling. This allows z/OS Connect to use APIs of the IBM Communications Server. Features are not limited to but can include inquiring attributes of certificates passed during the SSL/TLS handshake.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect - gRPC support

z/OS Connect supports the creation/consumption of RESTful APIs. As several customers use gRPC as their internal intercommunication protocol, it would be helpful to have that support also in z/OS Connect.
11 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

manage multiple API pipelines within single zcee instance

within our test systems we have multiple environments that may service an API. Within each environment we may have multiple pipelines or levels.We would like to be able to reduce the potential zcee server footprint by being able to manage multiple...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add warning messages when reaching the number of connections (ZCEE Monitoring)

the impact of z/OS connect in our company is very important and can cause a shutdown of our customers services and this can have a negative impact on our zsystems for our business line Our z/OS sub systems have already some metrics that are self m...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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