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z/OS Connect

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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.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Allow for global custom JSONata functions that can be used across any mapping in the API.

Customer exchanges data between remote systems (UTF-8) and mainframe back-end (EBCDIC) that contains special characters which need to be translated to a specific back-end encoding and vice versa. The translation needs to take place while the data ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE authorization interceptor process improvement

z/OS Connect EE's authorization interceptor process internally requires all RACF GROUPs associated with the RACF ID that may belong to either Global Reader Group, Invoke Group, Operator Group, Reader Group to carry unique USS GID for successful va...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

PIC X(n) support for binary.

In somme case we are sending/receiving byte buffer. This king of data is typed as byte buffer in java and type PIC X(n) in COBOL. In this case, we need a solution to transfert this kind of data througth JSON to COBOL without conversion.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support for character escaping in API requester scenario

To call some services we are required to avoid certain characters, such as the comma and such, which may exist in the COBOL input strings, and replace them in the JSON by standard symbols such as ' . We thought of using an interceptor to ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Allow z/OS Connect EE to install using a Liberty Profile supplied by the client. You can set minimum requirements. If any special functions are required, you can provide t...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Messages in SYSLOG for administration acts

Adding a message in the SYSLOG for each acts of administration on Service/API (Deploiement, stop, start)
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Export 88 levels as JSON comments when building a Z/OS Connect API in Z/OS explorer

The 88 levels in a Cobol program and copybook contain very useful code that could very easily turn into comments when exporting. These comments would be helpful for downstream developers to know constraints on certain fields
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

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