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z/OS Connect

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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/...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ZOS Connect GraphQL Support

I have just made test on zos connect and I have a hugh structure in PL/1. Of course I can map everything to extra REST Services, but it would be great to just take the hole PL/1 structure and provide a graphQL API. Would be much less work.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Provide meaningful error messages for z/OS Connect and API toolkit problems

Currently z/OS Connect provides for a lot of configuration errors, RACF and Unix System Services problems neither an error message in the JES Job Log nor an error message in the messages.log. Often the only way to get an impression of what may be ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

ZOS Connect Pointer Support

We are evaluting zos connect in a POC and found, that it would be helpful to have pointer support, as we are dealing with a lot of pointers in our PL/1 programms.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

zOSCEE - Share Base Path

API project 1 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev1 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /withdraw API project 2 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev2 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /querybalance. zCEE reports error when deploy the second pr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow API/SAR Deployment to specified Folder Location

Related to RFE 112082, We envision the Eclipse API toolkit having a pop-up providing an option to specify a location when doing a deploy. It is important that our application developers for each of our lines of business to choose their separate LO...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Provide option to Remove Authorization Parameter when constructing Swagger Document using z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition

1. Provide option to Remove Authorization Parameter when constructing Swagger Document using z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition2. Currently when producing a Swagger Document using z/OS Connect the following "Authorization header is generated into the...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Propagate JWT in a chained API flow between inbound to Z and outbound from Z

We need the JWT that is verified with Liberty & z/OS Connect for an API with CICS/IMS service provider to be carried forward or propagated when that provider becomes an API requester to another Rest API on another platform.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Omit low-valued numerics: New advanced output option for z/OS Connect services.

We want to have a new service advanced output option like "Omit low-valued numerics". Or we want to have the "Omit fields with uniform byte values 0x00" advanced output option to take effect on numeric fields as it does on non-numeric field ? It n...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration