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z/OS Connect

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z/OS Connect Gradle and dependecy delivery over SMP/e

We are using the API first scenario and therefore do not require the zOS Connect designer. It means that we will integrate the Gradle copybook build in IDz and the WAR build under DBB. For both purposes we require a delivery of both the Gradle scr...
12 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Userid information should be displayed in ZCEE Early Failure 401 Authorization requests logged by Omegamon/JVM

The ability to monitor early authorization failures HTTP 401 is now available in z/OS Connect and Omegamon/JVM but the userid and mapped userid is not displayed for these failure requests. The userids are retrieved by using getUserPrincipal() whic...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements

Objective To add more data to the z/OS Connect Audit record for auditing and monitoring purposes. Description As the SMF123 record is described as the z/OS Conned Audit record, it would be appropriate that more information from USS log files shoul...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Policies to support DB2 via REST Client Service Provider

Currently Policies are available in z/OS Connect for CICS and IMS related API. Nationwide would like to see that same capability made available for DB2 for via the REST Client service provider. (Split out from RFE 124692: https://www.ibm.com/devel...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas

Add support for Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas. When arrays are defined using API Toolkit the Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays options are both available, but w...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Enhance Comms Stub to segment Data for CICS API Requestor services

The currently CALL interface in the zos Communication Stub is too rudimentary in nature and fails to take into account large and complex data structures now prevalent in many common external API's. This constraint is a major blocker for effective ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Supply a war file for Catalog Manager when using zosconnect to create OpenAPI 3 native server

In OpenAPI 2, Catalog Manager sample template is supported by "zosconnect create catalogManager --template=zosconnect:sampleCicsIpicCatalogManager". We would like to see the same for OpenAPI 3 "zosconnect create" command. This will allow us verify...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Creating DB2 services using the API Toolkit

System: z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition 3.0Actor: DBA / Developer z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit can create a service for CICS® (access through the CICS service provider) or IMS™ by using the z/OS® Connect EE API toolkit. Description: z/OS Connect EE...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

SMF 123 records should be logged for all access attempts to z/OS Connect

The ability to monitor authorization failures HTTP401 and file not found HTTP404 early failures is now available to be monitored in Omegamon/JVM but this same information is not written to the SMF 123 records. As SMF is the main security and audit...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Ability to specify the client side interface of an API, created in the API Editor

We want the ability to specify the client side interface of an API, created in the API Editor, independent of the server side interface, i.e., the interface created by the BAQLS2JS utility. Specifically, we want to define the representation of the...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered