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z/OS Connect

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Make z/OS Connect policy support more flexible

z/OS Connect policy support currently is very limited. All rules are based on conditions on HTTP headers. The configuration parameter values which overwrite the original ones in the service archive can only be fix values or values containing the v...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Using specific CICS Channel Name

In the z/OS Connect OpenAPI3 Designer, "JSONCHANNEL" is always used as a CICS channel name and there is currently no way to change CICS channel name when we invoke CICS Channel program via z/OS Connect. It means if customer has CICS Channel progra...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

File system logger on Api Requesters

Actually file system logger interceptor are available only for ApiProviders and Services. Is it possible to add this function for ApiRequesters ?.
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Option for generating Alternate Copybook Format for JSON

Support alternate format for generated CopyBooks generated by zconbt (or an alternate utility). Current format is proprietary to zCEE Requester. An alternate format could be processed directly by native JSON Parsing/Generation using COBOL and PLI ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support outbound CICS --> REST API (OpenAPI v3) calls using a containerized solution on OpenShift

Currently the exposure of OpenAPI 3 REST APIs inbound to z/OS is supported on openshift x86 containerized architecture. Outbound calls from CICS to the REST API (OpenAPI v3) instead require the runtime to be installed on z/OS. This generates a dup...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

zCEE: Support for WebSocket Clients

We have a requirement to establish WebSocket connection with our partner application to receive the various responses since the partner application supports only WebSocket API connection while sending its responses.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 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 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect - gRPC support

z/OS Connect supports the creation/consumption of RESTful APIs. As several customers use gRPC as their internal intercommunication protocol, it would be helpful to have that support also in z/OS Connect.
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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