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z/OS Connect

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need offline zosconnect Knowledge center

I submit this RFE on behalf of ICBC as they can't access internet. They are using zCEE. They need offline zCEE KC like what CICS provides.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Line Numbers on Copy Record Parse error messages

Our z/OS Connect Service developers would like the error messages generated for Copy record parsing problems to include Line Numbers.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Conditional transformation

Would it be possible to provide a feature where a field may be checked for a certain value or range of values before transforming all data received by the API. A key requirement would be to always transform the field being checked. So if the check...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

API Mapping editor - make query parameters optional

Allow GET operations for multiple resources by specifying the query parameters, but they have to be optional, for example if your service allows to get up to 40 accounts, you specify/accounts?id1&id2&id3&id4&id5&id6...&id40...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

[z/OS Explorer][z/OS Connect]API Definition ? manual enter standard HTTP header field and cannot specify field ?description.

Can z/OS Explorer tool provide an import function for HTTP header fields definition, so that we need not to enter the fields manually for each API ?   There is no way to enter the description of HTTP header field.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

regex expressions to JSON schema and Swagger docs

Adding regex expressions to JSON schema and Swagger docs is required.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zos connect swagger copy past for request body support

We tried to copy past the request body from the z/os connect eclipse swagger gui. Was not possible, as you can not do a copy past on the request structure.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Deploy & Undeploy z/OS Connect EE APIs without the need for Liberty recycles

We need the ability to dynamically deploy new and changed APIs without a recycle of the Liberty Server, as is required today .
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Control over JSON transform stripping out low value '00'/non-printable characters

z/OS Connect JSON transformation should be at user control. There needs to be an option to leave return values in binary if the user so chooses, so that the application can manage the returned content.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: simple arithmetic

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include simple arithmetic operations.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered