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z/OS Connect

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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

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE.

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Give the option of using the embedded version OR the client version of the runtime. Currently z/OS Connect comes with an embedded Liberty runtime which is located away fro...
over 6 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

Administrative Option to prevent IMS Trancode substitution from z/OS Connect API JSON payload

According to point 4 of the following KC https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4SVW_3.0.0/configuring/mobile_trancode_override.htmlThe IMS transaction code can be overridden by the API JSON payload if it is included as service interface...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Parameter to control loading of the artifacts on startup

Hello IBM, z/OS Connect currently load all the artifacts while starting and there is no parameter to control loading which can cause z/OS Connect instance to run out or memory on startup due to obsolete services within /services folder. We are req...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

zOSCEE - Share Base Path

API project 1 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev1 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /withdraw API project 2 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev2 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /querybalance. zCEE reports error when deploy the second pr...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Swagger/zosConnect issue

AT-TLS supports different types of application: - An unaware application is unaware that AT-TLS is performing encryption or decryption of data. - An aware application is aware of AT-TLS and can query information such as AT-TLS status and the partn...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesEnable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changes

Enable z/OS Connect API Requester Feature to Transparently handle API Endpoint changesCurrently, when an API endpoint has new response fields added that an API Consumer does not need, z/OS Connect API Requester will start to fail unless its API Re...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Produce message for C:D waiting excessive amont of time for dataset allocation request

All Connect:Direct copy step will fail when it is waiting for a dataset allocation request to complete. This mostly will happen if dataset is migrated or is resided on tape. Produce a message for a specific process/dataset if allocation request ha...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration