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z/OS Connect

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Allow header fields to be moved to response fields

We want to be able to move a correlation id received as an http header into the error schema.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Monetary Values and DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS

When using the JSON number decimal format the default setting is to 3 decimal places and we need the ability to set the floating point precision and to be able to specify DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS in the build toolkit for outbound APIs.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 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...
about 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...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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

[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...
about 4 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