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z/OS Connect

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Simple administration API to validate service provider connection

z/OS Connect Connect provides simple REST APIs to administer APIs ".../zosConnect/apis" and services ".../zosConnect/services". Something similar to query configured service providers and the health of the backend middleware connect would be extre...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

image file transfer through z/OS Connect inbound scenario

I submit this RFE on behalf of JIM (Jabatan Imigrisen Malaysia) per customer request. JIM have requirement on image file transfer through z/OS Connect with inbound processing.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer Access Control

IMS Explorer is eclipse based solution which is used to define connection and interaction profiles to target IMS systems along with service and transaction definitions. As these two activities are performed by different roles. Fine grain access co...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

High Availability Worload with IPIC

Need a real High Availability Worload when connecting zcee and CICS with IPIC. Not just fail over.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Need a tool to batch ".SAR" creation.

We want to batch the IMS service creation instead of using the API Toolkit.We have more than 4500 service to migrate from our actual SOA plateform. We need an industrial way to generate ".sar(s)".
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

PIC X(n) support for binary.

In somme case we are sending/receiving byte buffer. This king of data is typed as byte buffer in java and type PIC X(n) in COBOL. In this case, we need a solution to transfert this kind of data througth JSON to COBOL without conversion.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Triggering the impact analysis of the z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition API Editor

Provide a way to trigger the impact analysis when importing a service with a different name in the z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition API Editor.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Require fine grain security for IMS Admin service in z/OS Connect

A more fine grained security model is needed for IMS Admin service in zCEE so that multiple E4D development teams can share the same instance of zCEE server without the danger of stepping on other team's artifacts.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Provide update to ZCEE request and response payloads in interceptors

Provide update access to the request and response payloads within an interceptor module. This is to provide simple support for encryption / decryption, tokenization, and other security functions. The data would be decrypted by the pre-invoke metho...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration