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Enable SMF Record Population in OAS3 Run-Time

OAS2 Run-time currently populates SMF records for performance and execution data. This same capability needs to be present in the OAS3 Run-time for all similar data.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enable Passticket support in OAS3 Run-time

OAS2 Run-time for zOS Connect supports Passticket credentials. This same capability needs to be provided in OAS3 in all systems of record as it is in OAS2 Run-time
over 1 year 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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 ...
almost 3 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.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Pass JWT payload (the claims) to a service provider of all sub-systems.

We want to use OAuth and JWT Access Tokens to authenticate and identify consumers of our APIs with z/OS Connect. A previous RFE was submitted and implemented that ensured JWT token is valid (signature & expiry check) and returns HTTP status co...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

ARInvokeHandler sets the Accept to always be MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON this needs to be configurable

An external API provider uses the Accept/Content headers for versioning. We have set the zconbt property ignoreMIMETypeCheck=true which allows the ARA build to complete. However when driving the API requester we get a 406 response as zOS Connect s...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect API http headers

Developer wants to set the followings in the http header of response in order to comply with internal security standard. key="Pragma" value="no-cache"key="Cache-Control" value="no-store"key="Strict-Transport-Security" value="max-age=63072000;inclu...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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