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z/OS Connect

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Add more options to Attribute characterWhiteSpace

Currently, the build toolkit properties file attribute characterWhiteSpace=COLLAPSE removes all leading, trailing, and embedded white space from type string fields. Furthermore, the same option replaces with single space characters all tabs, new l...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Facilitate UTF-8 in the ZCEE service provider

In CICS Channels / Service Provider ..... Currently the z/OS Connect EE toolkit does NOT accept/recognise PIC U (i.e. UTF-8) statements as introduced in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS v6.3. We have a requirement to ensure that ZCEE facilitates requests...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Support for anyOf/anyOf with discriminator

Our Developers are requesting support for oneOf/anyOf with discriminator support as provided in openAPI v3.. I've found that this type of capability had been requested in 2016 and 2017 RFEs and was declined -- adding a new RFE to express continued...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

MQ Provider should propagate client user Thread Identity via MQ to backend subsystems

The current API Provider / MQ-Provider should allow the current RACF Thread Identity to be passed via the MQ message to the backend MQ subsystem to allow the backend applications to execute that request using that same identity. This would then be...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future 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

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Option to expose data conversion error in API response

z/OS Connect APIs return HTTP SC200 (OK) despite reporting many GMOMW0005E data conversion errors in the STDOUT. According to L2 support, this data conversion error is so pervasive that zCEE just log the error messages but move on to provide the A...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

return status of each services/api in the zosConnect/apis or zosConnect/services call

Request is to include the "status" or "serviceStatus" in the zosConnect/apis or zosConnect/services call.This avoids having to call the underlying adminUrl or serviceUrl for each api/service to determine its status.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration