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z/OS Connect

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ZOS Connect Pointer Support

We are evaluting zos connect in a POC and found, that it would be helpful to have pointer support, as we are dealing with a lot of pointers in our PL/1 programms.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

FTP and MFA

With the growing use of MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) now when anyone need to perform a FTP from a zOS server A to another zOS Server B, instead of inform the pswd at zOS Server B is need to open a browse and get the B's token at https://serve...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

API Properties & components link

About API Properties:When a user is looking for an APi properties (From z/os connect EE server view) he can see some informations that are fine but non exaustive. It may be more interesting to have an overview about all files that are dependant (j...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

create API project in batch way

on behalf of ICBCa way to share and modify mapping rule in a batch way, eg in excel
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect should provide a feedback to the application when a timeout occurs

When an application takes longer to process a request than the timeouts configured or defaulted in z/OS Connect, z/OS Connect reutuns a 'timed out' error to the user. However when the application (eventually) responds with output, it is not inform...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Redefined Response Message, z/Os Connect validates each possible data structure issuing GMOMW0005E for every failure

z/Os Connect should not produce messages to the logs when validating the SOR message reply when one of the response message redefines structures is completely valid.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

support outbound from CICS

invoke json restful api from COBOL program running inside CICS.
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Support for HMAC Signature generation

Identification/Authentication for Client end points posting RESTful API requests are predominantly utilizing HMAC signature. So, z/OS Connect EE API requester capability to be enhanced with HMAC signature generation for dynamic no. of elements sen...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Z/OS Connect DLL version of BAQCSTUB

Currently z/OS Connect V3 does not deliver a DLL version of the BAQCSTUB stub module. As a consequence this stub cannot be called dynamically from a application program compiled with the DLL option
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Zos Connect API requestor support for RAML service documentation

zOS connect API requestor currently consumes request and response json as swagger input. API gateway such as Mulesoft publish documentation as RAML which means they cannot simply be consumed by zOS Connect. The requirement is to enable zCEE to con...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration