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z/OS Connect

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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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support for OAuth 2.0 client_credentials grant type using an X.509 certificate signed JWT

The JWT needs to be signed with a z/OS Connect private key. The client_id used in the JWT “iss” and “sub” claims must be a functional ID configured in server.xml, which is then also used on the client_id parameter of the OAuth 2.0 access token req...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE 3.x Nullable field support

DB2 RESTful API definition via API TOOLKIT require SAR file generated by BUILDTOOLKIT. BUILDTOOLKIT requires REQUEST/RESPONSE schema created under DB2 RESTful SERVICE capabilities. They carry NULLABLE parameters/fields. While defining PATH paramet...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enhance zOS Connect to Refresh by service name

Currently zOS Connect refreshes all sar, aar, ara file types for an entire directory instance. This is a request to enhance ZSCONCMD to refresh by specific service names.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE API Toolkit support for VARCHAR in Cobol

API Toolkit does not provide an efficient support for VARCHAR in Cobol.Example Cobol copybook:03 CUSTNAME. 49 CUSTNAME-X PIC X(080). 49 CUSTNAME-L PIC S9(04) COMP. Resulting JSON:"CUSTNAME" : { "type": "object", "properties": { "CUSTNAME-X": { "ma...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Add a list of groups to z/os Connect globalInvokeGroup

The globalInvokeGroup element only allows a single group (assume RACF group profile), however, we need multiple RACF group profiles in order to support our development and testing. This would be similar to the multiple group support provided in th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 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

Large PIC9 fields not managed by z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit

The int type in Java can be used to represent any whole number from -2147483648 to 2147483647.Invocation of APIs fails when API is created using z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit from COPY vith big PIC9 fields.Swagger must be manually updated inserting ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements for identified the caller

Our client has asked to trace the activity of these managers by USER ID / IP ADDRESS / Services called.In SMF 123, it lack IP Address. It would be interesting to add the IP address of the caller in the record smf 123.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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