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z/OS Connect

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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 ...
about 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 ...
over 8 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.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Selective Tracking Stakeholder Identifier Request

I want to reserve a product stakeholder token for z/OS Connect EE Selective Tracking. Product: CA SYSVIEWRequested stakeholder Identifier: S2nd choice: G
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support calling MIME type versioned APIs

We have teams that use api versioning through the mime type. We need z/os connect to support setting the Accept and Content-Type (overriding the usual application/json.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Provide capability to skip domain name check during Root CA certificate validation in outbound case

Submit this RFE on behalf of BCA (Bank Central Asia, Indonesia) per customer request. Customer want this capability to skip domain name validation in development environment for testing purpose.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE WTO error messages

I would like to have the error messages encountered in the z/OS Connect EE logs written to a location where the can be captured and used as a WTO that can be automated into a system action
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Provide support to send DBCS characters in unescaped form in z/OS Connect EE using REST API

Currently z/OS Connect EE send DBCS data in unescaped form when using REST API , however the customer in Japan which we are currently trying to sell z/OS Connect EE will have C and Java programs as the REST client. If the JSON data is sent in esca...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

API mapping supports codepage convert for specific field

provide a function in api mapping to do codepage convert for specific fields.this function may require a way to stop the default codepage convert in zcee which is from utf8 to ebcdic. So user can only do codepage convert for specific fields.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Splunk Integration for Logging & Monitoring

Currently product logs to file system which limits company's roadmap of having end to end tracking with one unified solution that is integrating all systems to Splunk. Also the current log to file systems will become very tedious to manually brows...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered