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z/OS Connect

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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...
almost 2 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...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Sending custom OAuth 2.0 claims in Access Token Request from CICS

Right now we are able to call OAuth 2.0 secured APIs from a z/OS Connect requester in CICS, using the following guidelines: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/securing/requester_oauth2.html We can add client_id, client_secret...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Allow zCEE API requester facility when more than one 2xx response defined in the swagger document

The swagger document has the following description operationId: scoreSearchesUsingPOST consumes: - application/json produces: - application/json parameters: - in: body name: scoreApiFilter description: scoreApiFilter required: true schema: $ref: '...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Allow credentials needed for full authentication in IMS to be passed from zCEE

Our InfoSec team is requiring that any connection into IMS be enabled with RACF = 'Y' (meaning both userid and password is needed to authenticate). Unfortunately, zCEE does not currently pass any kind of password information along to IMS, only a u...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

Policy Rule to use Header value simply IF header is present

Today we can create rules to take action based on Conditions with EQUAL, AND, and OR operations. for example:<conditions> <header name="cicsTran" value="KE18,KE20"/> </conditions> <actions> <set property="cicsTransId" va...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

API First should deliver copybook only without project structure

When running the zC EE Gradle build with the option to only deliver a copybook, the entire project structure gets delivered as well. The creation and editing of a service should include developer relevant aspects only. This project structure has n...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Help identify corrupt APIs in seconds

Together with a customer we ran a zCEE v3 PoC. We ran into trouble where we could not connect to the APIs on the zCEE server anymore and not all APIs were loaded, receiving cryptic error messages in the Eclipse GUI and in zCEE messages.log. We cou...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Add connection reference property to CICS service provider

At JPM all CICS services defined with the toolkit have connection reference “catalog”, I suppose because of the IBM example application. I cannot change that, all services are created with that dummy connection reference. If I had to change it dyn...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Enable multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to Global Interceptors

Please consider allowing multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to globalOperationGroup, globalInvokeGroup, and globalReaderGroup. Currently you can only assign multiple groups to globalAdminGroup. Also would like a way to specify that anyone that ha...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered