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z/OS Connect

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create API project in batch way

on behalf of ICBCa way to share and modify mapping rule in a batch way, eg in excel
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect should provide a feedback to the application when a timeout occurs

When an application takes longer to process a request than the timeouts configured or defaulted in z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect reutuns a 'timed out' error to the user. However when the application (eventually) responds with output, it is not inform...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

support outbound from CICS

invoke json restful api from COBOL program running inside CICS.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow larger variable length fields beyond the current limit of 32767

We’re proposing an enhancement to z/OS Connect’s OPENAPI2 to better handle larger variable length fields. Currently, to accommodate large data returned by our apiRequester endpoint, we’re required to set the varying field to a fixed length (charac...
2 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
6 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

QA Checks in the z/OS Connect EE API3 designer

Problem Statement : One of the risks of the bottom-up approach is that CBL software engineers create API's which don't adhere to ethos of what a good API should look like and behave. Abstraction can be a 'remote' concept to some m/f developers !! ...
17 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
26 days ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add connection reference property to CICS service provider

At JPM all CICS services defined with the toolkit have connection reference “catalog”, I suppose because of the IBM example application. I cannot change that, all services are created with that dummy connection reference. If I had to change it dyn...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Planned for future release

z/OS Connect - gRPC support

z/OS Connect supports the creation/consumption of RESTful APIs. As several customers use gRPC as their internal intercommunication protocol, it would be helpful to have that support also in z/OS Connect.
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support the mounting of Keystores in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? (IPIC is used as an example to illustrate the requirement, but the requirement extends to any Keystores that may be required by a z/OS Connect API server.) IPIC security is an important consideration when deploying z/OS Connect A...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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