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z/OS Connect

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MQ Provider data in Interceptor

Customers require OMEGAMON to provide API data for MQ service provider. The interceptor does not currently get driven for the MQ provider service.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Show the authToken id / authServerRef information for RESTful API. Error in messages.log

When encounter RESTful API error only the following message would show in messages.log, to further investigate, it needs to turn on the trace log. Therefore, our customer is asking if it can show more useful information such as authToken id / auth...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Dynamically detect server.xml include files

Detect when files included by server.xml get modified and dynamically implement changes just like server.xml is handled
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Enable support for ENUM Usage in BAQJS2LS Utility

The BAQJS2LS utilities does not process enums presented as input. It issues the following message:DFHPI9701E Unsupported JSON schema. The JSON schema keyword "enum" is not supported.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support for IMS Large Data Service

When dealing with an IMS Service message with a length greater than 32k, it seems that there is no need to use a Large Data Service and an IMS service can always be used as it accounts for this. However, a flag that gives the option of z/OS Connec...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Limitation of the default Field size of all fields

Currently the field lengths are defaulted to 255 and even when we are using the defaultCharacterMaxLength property to default the field to some other value, copybooks generated aren't picking them.I think if we can have this field length derived f...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers

z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers Provide for direct mapping of Request HTTP headers to Response HTTP headers, without any need for processing. In our environment, certain headers are used for global tagging ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

API Requester configuration server.xml vs ara file

We need zero server.xml modifications when deploying, updating and moving an API requester between environments:- Fully automatic deployment and update from an ara file, like we've with APIs and services, without necessity to create a section in t...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS connect Api customizalble JSON request/response

Z/OS connect api generates json request as <service>Operation and the response as <service>OperationResponse. A service name is case of a service toe cics is related to a cics connection. So every same service to a different CICS will ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

PL/I PICUTRE Data Type Support Required in z/OS Connect EE

We are generating SAR files for PL/I Copybooks using BAQLS2JS provided by z/OS Connect EE v2.0. The Copybook contains PIC data types. We were told by IBM that the tool does not support the PIC data type. Therefore we would require the PIC data typ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered