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z/OS Connect

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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: '...
over 6 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 4 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Truncate Cobol Data Structure

Cobol does not have the notion of variable-length string. When a string in the Cobol copybook is mapped to JSON payload for z/OS Connect, it is set with the maximum length. Even when the actual JSON payload is smaller, z/OS Connect sends the full ...
over 2 years 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Possibility to suppress the server URL in error messages

VA tester tried to provide an invalid input where the input data exceeds the maximum length. The actual ZConnect URL is sent back in the error message as part of the response. {"errorMessage":"BAQR0429W: API RetrieveCreditChargeCardFulfillmentArra...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Timestamp in STDERR dataset

It would be useful to have, even in the dataset pointed by the DDNAME STDERR, the indication of the timestamp of each single message, as already happens in the product logs.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 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 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

API Toolkit enhance swagger info object to include contact object

Currently using the API Toolkit feature under zOS Explorer there is no option to include the contact object as part of the info object which currently includes description and version. As a result contact information for an API is missing from the...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

JSON pass-through support in z/OS Connect EE

Modern COBOL compilers and Java are supporting JSON processing in mainframe applications, but z/OS Connect EE is currently limited to field-based messages. Please add the support to pass-through JSON data in both request and response in z/OS Conne...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered