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z/OS Connect

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Control asyncRequestTimeout on API or Service level

Currently it is only possible to set the asyncRequestTimeout parameter on a server level within the zosconnect_zosConnectManager element. We keep the value for this default rather low to have some protection against misbehaving programs. For most...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Sysplex Distributor Support for z/OS Connect - SERVERWLM for DVIPAs

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Keep Array Counter Fields in Response

The Array Count-by option to limit the number of records in an array provides a large performance increase, however there is a trade-off that you always lose that field from the data area itself. I request that the field used to count the number o...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under 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.
almost 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhance API Requester resilience

To improve API Requester resilence with a tactic similar to Circuit Breaker pattern
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Support for IMS transaction name length required

Our site uses variable length IMS transaction names.The current implementation of the API Toolkit with fix PH09920 allows to specify a transaction name that will either be padded with spaces for a maximum length of 8 characters or if the Space Del...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Provide meaningful error messages for z/OS Connect and API toolkit problems

Currently z/OS Connect provides for a lot of configuration errors, RACF and Unix System Services problems neither an error message in the JES Job Log nor an error message in the messages.log. Often the only way to get an impression of what may be ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

zOS Connect enable generics in zosConnectAPI name construct

in order to secure API using the authorizationInterceptor for access by different teams we currently have to specify every API and define the relevant access. With naming standards we can group these much more efficiently using generics for exampl...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration