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z/OS Connect

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Provide XML support in z/OS Connect EE

We would like the capability of using XML-based transformations in addition to JSON..
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Desire to propagate zCEE API name through to CICS request

When a CICS API request is made via zCEE, different APIs (and API names) have the potential to utilise the same transaction IDs in CICS, making it impossible to properly understand the workload being driven inside CICS in terms of the various zCEE...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit and the Windows Certificate Manager

Certificate management via the Windows Certificate Manager for the z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (Eclipse plug-in).
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring data in ZCEE

Need of Monitoring data 'live' in ZCEE such as :Number of request in treatment (Service + API)Number of request treated (Service + API)Number of connected usersNumber of 'back end' (CICS,IMS,ect...) connected (specially with WOLA)Number of active ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Allow z/OS Connect EE to install using a Liberty Profile supplied by the client. You can set minimum requirements. If any special functions are required, you can provide t...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add caching capability for non-JWT style token

We are starting to utilise IMS and CICS as API requesters and we are considering the future performance of our infrastructure. We have a concern about our authentication pattern which we think will add overhead to our API requestor flow. The...
8 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

API Requester support for additional content-type

Currently, API Requester only supports a content-type of application/json We have teams that require to be able to call REST APIs with content-types other than the one currently supported:multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplica...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

In OAS3, we still need a method to develop services using program communication areas to generate services from existing processes

The yaml OAS3 input document is not something most mainframe developers would have knowledge of how to develop correctly. However, they know how existing process and programs are working. Since a significant use of z/OS Connect is to expose access...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future 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