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z/OS Connect

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Add additional properties to policy rules

Today with z/OS Connect policy files you can only use headers to make a decision on which CICS transaction and connection to use. What we are needing is a way to use the headers and other information such as the API operation, path, method e.g. to...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 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...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for useBearerScheme="false" in server.xml

It can only update one config and effectuate to all zosconnect_authToken elements. The risk for the change would be smaller and it would benefit to both application and support teams.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Restore previous API status after z/OS Connect restart

When restarting z/OS Connect it starts every API which has been deployed to it not matter if it was started or stopped before the shutdown. We would like z/OS Connect to restore the status an API had before the shutdown.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow third party Service Provider interface to set System of Record Data

Customers of monitoring products like OMEGAMON for JVM want to be able to monitor API connections to third party service providers like DVM. The public third party Service Provider interface does populate any of the SoR fields for SMF or intercept...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add batch job (JCL) function to create web service and .SAR file in z/OS connect for IMS.

Enhance z/OS Connect for IMS by using batch job to create web service and .sar file . For example like CICS does . (BAQLS2JS) submit JCL job to create service and file . The current environment might have lots of applications need to publish as AP...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

zCEE to have an option for a SAF call to check if the authenticated user was authorised to invoke a service

Client would prefer that zCEE did a SAF call to check if the authenticated user was authorised instead of using the RACF groups referenced in server.xml
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect sends wrong absolute time to CICS application when a date-time string field is converted to an absolute time

The opening of this Design Change and why is it useful, who would benefit from it, how should it work can be traced back to Case TS009967551 as requested by IBM ZCCEL3 Support.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Conifguration UI for Server XML.

A UI is required for all of the configuration elements in the server.xml for zOS Connect. In particular the zosconnect_localAdaptersConnectService and zosconnect_zosConnectService are immensely confusing and need wizards in the tooling for automat...
about 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

api mapping supports base64 convert

provide a function in api mapping to convert from base64 to plain text
over 9 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration