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z/OS Connect

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Support a more generic rest api provider in zCEE services ( for zowe, zOSMF etc)

A typical mf application consists of transactions(IMS,CICS,...MQ), maybe some Databases(DB2), but also some datasets, files. It would be beneficiary to be able to include a mix in the zOSConnect defined apis from all of theese sources. Today we ca...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Display deployed ApiRequesters in zOSExplorer plugin

In the zOSConnect EE plugin in Eclipse(zOS Explorer). Please show the existing apiRequesters for the zCEE server. The admin api(s) for retrieving is already there( /zosConnect/apiRequesters/ ) etc...?
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect API Requester support for application/HAL+JSON

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis-administration/api/hal Currently, API Requester does not have integration with application/HAL-JSON, which causes the callers of APIS that use HAL+JSON to manually modify the swagger to define the HAL respons...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Include the Liberty dispatch time within z/OS Connect SMF and monitor data (e.g. Omeagamon for JVM and OEM vendors just as Dynatrace)

Without the Liberty Dispatch time we have had instances of large amounts of time in our API call chain being unaccounted for. We had a recent incident with IBM (TS010301362) to assist in identifying what appeared to be a random 5 second spike in r...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

zCEE Requester currently only supports JSON responses. Please add support for text/plain responses.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Putting z/OS Connect Designer docker image onto Docker Hub

Due to company policy, we are only allowed to download docker image from Docker Hub or gcr.io. It will take a very long time and go thru some lengthy processes to get the approval and set-up in place for pulling docker image from IBM Container Reg...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 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

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

Allow for global custom JSONata functions that can be used across any mapping in the API.

Customer exchanges data between remote systems (UTF-8) and mainframe back-end (EBCDIC) that contains special characters which need to be translated to a specific back-end encoding and vice versa. The translation needs to take place while the data ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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