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z/OS Connect

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Check TAG into server.xml from AdminCenter

Before using AdminCenter, I edited server.xml in 3270. Now I use AdminCenter but it miss one functionnalité for check the good syntax.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 CHAR VARYING Mapping Support

The developers argued, that there is no PL/1 CHAR VARYING Mapping Support. This should be a quick win in extending the product.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Use of JSSE in trust between zCEE and IMS Connect

To establish the trust between z/OS Connect EE and IMS Connect in order to use identity assertion, TLS Mutual Authentication needs to be implemented between the 2 started tasks. On the z/OS Connect EE side, the use of a standard Liberty SSL repert...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide CICS container visibility in z/OS Connect EE

z/OS Connect EE (service provider) delivers the capability to expose existing CICS assets based on CICS Containers. Alas though unlike CICS TS and CICS IA there appears to be no method to ascertain what CICS containers are being used by a given Se...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Conifguration UI for Server XML.

A UI is required for all of the configuration elements in the server.xml for zOS Connect. In particular the zosconnect_localAdaptersConnectService and zosconnect_zosConnectService are immensely confusing and need wizards in the tooling for automat...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

api mapping supports base64 convert

provide a function in api mapping to convert from base64 to plain text
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Set HTTP 504 for timeouts

For asynchtimeout the HTTP code should be 504 NOT 503.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide more Service Provider Details in Admin Interface

I would like to see the Connection Reference and the CICS Transaction ID included in the detailed display of Services, in the Admin REST Interface.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Pagination option in z/OS Connect

I have a CICS-COBOL code to return about 10000 records and it is getting time out and also it is not good way to send 10000 records in single shot. So would like to check the possibility of having pagination option to send the records in batches, ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Retain existing API files in server in case of issues with deployment for an API

If redeployment of already existing API is unsuccessful, previous version of API present on z/OS Connect server also gets deleted. Refer attached documents for details.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Is a defect