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z/OS Connect

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Automated build of deployable SAR and AAR from API toolkit projects

Provide an automated way to migrate the services/APIs across different environments while those environments are sharing the same zOS Connect EE to expose RESTful APIs. APIs and services requires unique names on the same server, with this capabili...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

DB2 REST Services Nullable Fields/Parameters

Support for optional parameters for DB2 REST Services via ZOS Connect
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support special characters in uri parameters

Support special characters in uri parameters for a GET request. The parameters may contain special characters - examples '+', '-' and '*'. These are encoded/escaped in the uri but zOS Connect should decode them back to the original value before po...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Delivered

z/OS Connect JSON Parser needs to handle large numbers and not round numeric values

When processing a large number (One that is too large to be represented by a signed 64-bit binary value) the IBM JSON parser raises an error - because it regards the value as 'not numeric'. Also, if a number has decimal positions and has more than...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Date-Time service interface mapping.

Opportunity : Currently z/OS Connect provides support for mapping for Date and Boolean elements. However; it does not provide support for Date-Time (as defined by OAS standards). The 'idea' is for Date-Time to be introduced an additional mapped el...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Error message in JOBLOG and automatic reconnection ZCEE/ANGEL

Actually, if ZCEE is started when no ANGEL process started the following message is issued CWWKB0101I: The angel process is not available. No authorized services will be loaded. The reason code is 1. But it's only issued in message.log file in USS...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Access to http headers in CICS-based service provider programs when called via CICS-Embedded zCEE

http headers are available to the provider program when called via native CICS WebServices as well as from a standalone zCEE (leveraging WOLA's linkTaskChanCtxContHttpHeaders parameter) This capability is not supported by the CICS-Embedded zCEE im...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support multiple OCCURS DEPENDING ON clauses in LS2JS transform

Enhance the LS2JS transformation to support multiple OCCURS DEPENDING ON clauses within the response copybook. The current limitation is that we can only have one OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause in a response copybook and it must be the last major elem...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

specify non keyboard printable characters in zOSCEE

IMS Enterprise Explorer for Development allows to specify non keyboard printable characters as escape sequences to be specified as JSON input, however its not possible to specify those escape sequences as constant values into the service interface.
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

API Mapping Editor - Allow query parameters with multiple values

Allow query parameters that can contain multiple values, for example/accounts?ids leading to /accounts?ids=1234,5678,9999...Currently we don't support dissecting this parameter.A workaround would be to map the "ids" parameter to a single string in...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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