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z/OS Connect

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Support for plain text data in z/OS Connect EE

There are lots of software products, which are able to send HTTP request but can't process JSON responses. Currently z/OS Connect EE is limited to JSON responses, which means those software products can't invoke mainframe applications through z/OS...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

Support the mounting of Keystores in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? (IPIC is used as an example to illustrate the requirement, but the requirement extends to any Keystores that may be required by a z/OS Connect API server.) IPIC security is an important consideration when deploying z/OS Connect A...
12 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Custom Content-Type for Authorization Server Header

I am working with IBM Connect Enterprise Edition version 3.0.48. We would like a way to customize the content-type header that is being sent to get a JWT from our specified authorization server. The authorization server we are using is built as a ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support tolerant reader principle with z/OS Connect JSON

System: z/OS connect Enterprise EditionUSER needs z/OS Connect REST clients to be tolerant readers by default. currently they are not tolerant readers by default, Object value has to be explicitly mentioned in the OpenAPi file + a Size has to fore...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

TimeBoxing BAQCSTUB in IMS transactions

IMS transactions have high performance with very short process time measured in milliseconds. When they are enhanced to make outbound API calls using BAQCSTUB, they are subjected to latency from the network and the API providers. Currently, parame...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE 3.x - SMF 123 enhancement to capture failure events

Part of enhancing SMF 123 record structure for z/OS Connect (both API provider and API requester), Please consider to capture ONLY the first failure (similar to FFDC) related data for any repeated USER enforced failures.. Eg., Authorization failur...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support Multiple IP-addresses in z/OS Connect EE

Our client is making an outbound API call from CICS using z/OS Connect EE. Client's API team presented us with three IP-addresses for their API server. The addresses was pointed to the same server with each corresponding to an availability zone fo...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect MQ one-way notification

z/OS Connect 1-Way operation MQPut. When a request is processed the MQPut successfully writes the message to the queue but no response is returned to the browser to confirm the request failed or was successful.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to connect to z/OS Connect API Toolkit with MFA

When login, we are using a MFA password composed with a personal code followed by a single-use token.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow api key as credentials in host connection

Add 'api key' as an option on credentials for a host connection in the z/os explorer.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

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