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z/OS Connect

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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.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 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...
over 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
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Timestamps on messages in z/OS Connect servers

The z/OS Connect EE V2 Server currently runs with 2 output files, being STDOUT and STDERR. None of the messages in either of these files have timestamps on them. Within z/OS, we need timestamps on messages so we can match together the events occur...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Suppress empty tags with option indicator

We think the combination of (a) option to suppress empty tags and (b) hex'00' low value, if both combinations are true, then suppress. So conversely if the blanks, and zeros are validate values. This is so that calling applications don't have to s...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Allow Basic Authorization in API Requester Using CICS

Currently no authorization header is being passed when using API Requester in CICS. This allows anyone with access to the CICS region to run the API Request regardless of whether or not they exist in the GlobalInvokeGroup in the server.xml. IMS an...
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 ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

API Path Parameter parsing capabilities

Capability to parse a Path parameter and map different segments into separate fields of the Service.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect - Provide a complete fully supported solution for dynamic updates (i.e. updateTrigger mbean)

z/OS Connect - Provide a complete fully supported solution for dynamic updates (i.e. updateTrigger mbean) Updates of Liberty Profile server.xml file, and z/OS Connect zosConnectDataXform files are either: - automatic with a polling interval -- CPU...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered