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z/OS Connect

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High Availability Worload with IPIC

Need a real High Availability Worload when connecting zcee and CICS with IPIC. Not just fail over.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange for z/OS Connect

We would like to have the functionality of Token Exchange in OAuth 2.0 (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8693) directly enabled from z/OS Connect EE. This would enable us to use the 'extension' OAuth Grant Type to execute new token requests usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Allow modification of minItems in API Toolkit while defining a service

This is a request to add an advanced option to the z/OS Connect API Toolkit to allow a consumer to choose/set the minItems value during a service creation. This setting would force the api toolkit to generate schema that force minItems to 0, inste...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking

Enhance the z/OS Connect Configuration to Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking. This could be provided via a new parameter to instead check a RACF class such as EJBROLE as already done for the "safRoleMapper" statemen...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Create base64 auth token from credentials in the Swagger UI of z/OS Connect API Editor

The into the z/OS Connect API Editor integrated Swagger UI allows an easy testing of z/OS Connect API services. The only thing for which you still need a separate tool is the generation of the base64 auth token which is being needed when calling s...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Remove empty fields from API responses

In the OpenAPI3 z/OS Connect Designer, there is currently no way to remove empty fields (i.e. "abcd" : "") from the API response. The OpenAPI2 API toolkit allowed us to easily do this. It would be beneficial performance wise to remove such fields ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Setting a custom value for the Content-Type HTTP header in z/OS Connect API response messages

We are currently trying to align the error messages sent by our company's REST APIs with this RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs). One of the standards in the RFC is setting the Content-Type HTTP head...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect to offer API's with content secured with digital signatures

We want to have the ability in z/OS Connect to use signing of outbound API requests and signature verification of inbound API requests.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Alternative response message structures in z/OS Connect

Response messages from transactions have not always the same structure. It is common to use a field telling the invocating application which structure to use for the variable part of the message. Currently it is not possible to handle such kinds o...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration