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z/OS Connect

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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
over 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.
over 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.
almost 7 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...
over 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.
over 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...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

UTF-8 support in JSON Payload

Now the JSON response of ZC (z/OS Connect) is based on ASCII, ISO-8859-1. To handle national characters, ZC is using \ escape characters. In AP countries like Thailand, China, Korea and Japan, z/OS Connect can't deliver national characters in the ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Apply mapping operations with Multi-field selection

In the z/OS Connect EE API Editor, you can select a field to be removed, so that it is not sent in the JSON reply, Would it be possible to be able to change this editor so could select a number of fields to have an action like Remove applied to th...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered