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Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
about 7 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...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect Gradle and dependecy delivery over SMP/e

We are using the API first scenario and therefore do not require the zOS Connect designer. It means that we will integrate the Gradle copybook build in IDz and the WAR build under DBB. For both purposes we require a delivery of both the Gradle scr...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 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 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

Need controls for setting array size based on user-defined Counter variable

We need the ability to control size of transformed arrays based on a used-defined variables other than OBJECTS of ODO (OCCURS DEPENDING ON), in COBOL. This is perhaps best suited for new API Mapping capability allowing the user to identify the fie...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered