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z/OS Connect

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specification error in API POST body results in token validation error, while we expect a specification error

To test one of our API's we deliberately changed the body of an API POST. When doing that the customer gets an HTTP 500 error and ZCEE signals a security related error message (token validation error) while we expect a specification error.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Display deployed ApiRequesters in zOSExplorer plugin

In the zOSConnect EE plugin in Eclipse(zOS Explorer). Please show the existing apiRequesters for the zCEE server. The admin api(s) for retrieving is already there( /zosConnect/apiRequesters/ ) etc...?
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect API Requester support for application/HAL+JSON

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis-administration/api/hal Currently, API Requester does not have integration with application/HAL-JSON, which causes the callers of APIS that use HAL+JSON to manually modify the swagger to define the HAL respons...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide XML support in z/OS Connect EE

We would like the capability of using XML-based transformations in addition to JSON..
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Include the Liberty dispatch time within z/OS Connect SMF and monitor data (e.g. Omeagamon for JVM and OEM vendors just as Dynatrace)

Without the Liberty Dispatch time we have had instances of large amounts of time in our API call chain being unaccounted for. We had a recent incident with IBM (TS010301362) to assist in identifying what appeared to be a random 5 second spike in r...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Set LL value for IMS msg

A middleware application at the bank is responsible for sending data from branch applications back to IMS on the host and process the response back. The middleware team is looking to modernize this application to communicate to IMS using z/OS Conn...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring data in ZCEE

Need of Monitoring data 'live' in ZCEE such as :Number of request in treatment (Service + API)Number of request treated (Service + API)Number of connected usersNumber of 'back end' (CICS,IMS,ect...) connected (specially with WOLA)Number of active ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

zOSConnect - Generating data format for integer

Hello,In zOSConnect toolkit 3.0.6.10, we have noted that for a data defined in PIC 9(n) in the copybook the generated data in swagger is like below :"contract_number" : {"type" : "integer","minimum" : 0,"maximum" : 99999999999999} ‎Without data fo...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Requester Endpoint not in server.xml

At the current level of zos/Connect v3 you have to set the endpoint url in server.xml. This is the worst choise to place it. Why? 1) Security reason: Modifikation of server.xml. If you use static zos/connect instances (not zospt) the chance is ver...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ZOS Connect GraphQL Support

I have just made test on zos connect and I have a hugh structure in PL/1. Of course I can map everything to extra REST Services, but it would be great to just take the hole PL/1 structure and provide a graphQL API. Would be much less work.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

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