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z/OS Connect

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Option to tolerant uninitialised / SPACE data in numberic fields during dataxform transformation

z/OS Connect will reject a data stream if any field does not comply with the data types as defined in the Copybook. The customer application response messages may contain SPACES in numeric fields under certain circumstances by design and will fail...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Provide utility to format/browse audit records

For z/OS Connect V1 the utility bbomsmfv can be used to format and print audit records (SMF type 120.11). Additional audit fields ave been added with z/OS Connect EE and the SMF type is now 123.1. Is it possible to have a similar utility to format...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support for >32K structures in IMS (message based structures instead of segment based structures in API)

Currently the z/OS Connect EE and IMS Mobile solution are designed to work with traditional IMS segment layouts, specifically requiring LLZZ prefixes. This implies that message structures exceeding 32K in size are not supported, unless they are ma...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Ability to build APIs on a REST service in zCEE

zOS Connect Enterprise Edition supports the ability to proxy a REST request to a backend server. Would request that zCEE be have ability to be able to create APIs in the API Editor on REST requests available in backend servers.
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

api mapping supports character replace

replace character when api mappingeg. replace 0 with blank.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

remove leading zero or blank in api mapping

remove leading zero or blank in API mapping.eg. from 001234 to 1234
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

api mapping support padding and prefix

support padding or prefix certain character to fix lengtheg. 1234 to 00001234 abcd to abcd____. ____ is blank
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Use OAuth and JWT Access Tokens to authenticate and identify consumers of our APIs

We want to use OAuth and JWT Access Tokens to authenticate and identify consumers of our APIs. The z/OS Connect API "framework" requires the following capabilities in order to conform to our API requirements:1. Accept a JWT Base-64 encoded access ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Flexibility for server instance data

1/ z/OSC EE forces me to put all server instance data in the /var/zosconnect/servers/<myServer> directory. I think that customers need more flexibility here. They should be able to specify a different directory structure. Ideally, different ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Support for chunked data from an API requester application in API requester mode.

z/OS Connect EE should allow chunked data from an API requester application in API requester mode.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered