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z/OS Connect

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z/OS Connect audit interceptor does not record query parameter

When using the audit interceptor a SMF type 123 subtype 1 record is created, but that SMF record doesn't contain the query parameter of the HTTP request. The "Target URI" data only contains the path and that may not be sufficient enough to know wh...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow headless build of APIs

Currently it is only possible to build an API (the .aar) within the elcipse IDE and z/OS Connect API Toolkit. We need the capability to build the .aar file from a CI/CD Pipeline.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support over 32KB z/OS Connect EE API Requester payload size for IMS application

Currently, z/OS Connect API Requester can support only up to 32KB payload size when the caller is an IMS application. My client wants to use an IMS application to access an API Provider whose return payload size can be up to 50 KB
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Reference to individual array member in the mapper

z/OS Connect API Toolkit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Require the ability to convert an OCCURS table to individual fields in a Service so that each occurrence of a field can be individually included, named, and referenced from the using API. For example, we ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 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.
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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.
over 4 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...
over 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...
about 6 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 ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered