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z/OS Connect

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Microprofile Health/Monitor Endpoint Support

To be able to handle z/OS connect endpoints the same way than normal microservices, there should be an microprofile health/monitoring endpoint. This endpoints would be very useful for every customer using zospt to start z/OS connect.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

REDEFINES Behavior: Requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request)

We are requesting support of JSON draft 4 schema within z/OS Connect, with "anyOf" & "oneOf" as it applies to REDEFINES support in IMS and CICS. Requirement: We have a requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request). The attac...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Future consideration

z/OS Connect EE multi-tenancy support

We have versioned Cics applications (with application platform context). This means we have one Program name with multiple versions behind: for example: program - version - (Cics operation/entrypoint) - url PROGA - V1.0 - readCustomer - /customer/...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Increased Functionality in the Transform on Response Mappings

Currently the multiple response code transform seems to happen after the IMS response message is placed in given response layout. I would like to request an option to have the transform happen before the IMS response message layout. For Example:If...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Facilitate UTF-8 in the ZCEE service provider

In CICS Channels / Service Provider ..... Currently the z/OS Connect EE toolkit does NOT accept/recognise PIC U (i.e. UTF-8) statements as introduced in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v6.3. We have a requirement to ensure that ZCEE facilitates requests...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Support for anyOf/anyOf with discriminator

Our Developers are requesting support for oneOf/anyOf with discriminator support as provided in openAPI v3.. I've found that this type of capability had been requested in 2016 and 2017 RFEs and was declined -- adding a new RFE to express continued...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Global settings for useBearerScheme="false" in server.xml

It can only update one config and effectuate to all zosconnect_authToken elements. The risk for the change would be smaller and it would benefit to both application and support teams.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Enabling SSL clientauth implies client cert authentication and mapping

With z/OS Connect it is not possible to configure ssl clientauth (configured in server.xml with clientAuthentication="true") without implying that you want to use the client cert as an authentication token and map it to a user in the local registr...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Allow third party Service Provider interface to set System of Record Data

Customers of monitoring products like OMEGAMON for JVM want to be able to monitor API connections to third party service providers like DVM. The public third party Service Provider interface does populate any of the SoR fields for SMF or intercept...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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