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z/OS Connect

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Adding arrays as request parameters

We need ZOS Connect to support query parameters as arrays to keep them as arrays, while converting the swagger to Copybooks rather then converting them to a single string
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Allow Multi APIs to use the same Base Path

Our API Developers want to us the same Base path for multiple APIs. when they attempt this - deploy fails with: Description Resource Path Location TypeAn error was received for z/OS Connect EE connection "..... 409 Conflict, BAQR7005E: The base pa...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE Liberty should allow server.env file config

Tried to follow Liberty "best practices" for our zCEE implementation, to separate task ID from configuration file owning ID as a Security consideration. This is allowed through Liberty but not Liberty within zCEE. Other parms are working in the se...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE service should allow a variable or inherit a connection profile

When deploying a service from test to prod, we should not have to change anything inside of the service. We have to edit and change the connection profile to point to different connection profile. Can this be a variable, or inherit from some other...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Allow z/OS requester to ignore fields not defined to the service

Currently we have requestor that calls a mulesoft service. The mule service was updated to add new fields but the z/OS connect service was not. As a result the requester fails as it doesnt know about these fields. The z/OS connect service doesn't ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

[z/OS Explorer][IBM z/OS Connect EE API toolkit]API Definition ? optionality of request field.

z/OS Explorer tool doesn't allow to specify the optionality of a field in API request body.  If it is doable, can zCEE server validate the request and response field base on the optionality flag, and return an error if a mandatory field is mi...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Tracking the correlation id (trace-id) for monitoring in SMF Data

We have a need to track client requests and monitor the life of that request, alerting on exceptions. We would use SMF to do this but need an additional field (trace-id) to hold this id
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

zCEE

Need a RFE setup for security errors by listening to RACF ENF.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

DB2 SAR uri override

Currently within the properties file used to define an service for a DB2 REST service there is a hard coded uri value. The path in the uri value includes the schema. The SAR file is generated once and promoted across DEV, SIT UAT etcThis schema ca...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

please create a dsect for SMF123-1

Please create an Assembler DSECT for SMF 123 records
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered