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z/OS Connect

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SMF123 enhancement - error from server or HTTP response code mapping

Problem statement : Despite 'polite' requests to the contrary we have a few internal customers who employ HTTP status code's 500 in their HTTP status code mapping. In the event of transient issues in Open LIberty, it is not possible to establish w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Option to expose data conversion error in API response

z/OS Connect APIs return HTTP SC200 (OK) despite reporting many GMOMW0005E data conversion errors in the STDOUT. According to L2 support, this data conversion error is so pervasive that zCEE just log the error messages but move on to provide the A...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

zCEE: Support for WebSocket Clients

We have a requirement to establish WebSocket connection with our partner application to receive the various responses since the partner application supports only WebSocket API connection while sending its responses.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Option for generating Alternate Copybook Format for JSON

Support alternate format for generated CopyBooks generated by zconbt (or an alternate utility). Current format is proprietary to zCEE Requester. An alternate format could be processed directly by native JSON Parsing/Generation using COBOL and PLI ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

zCEE Requester currently only supports JSON responses. Please add support for text/plain responses.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Control asyncRequestTimeout on API or Service level

Currently it is only possible to set the asyncRequestTimeout parameter on a server level within the zosconnect_zosConnectManager element. We keep the value for this default rather low to have some protection against misbehaving programs. For most...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Update LS2JS code to allow for a string of type json

Update the LS2JS conversion app to include a String type of "json" that would allow for the passing of a JSON payload without transformation and without the addition of quotes. "type":"string", "format":"json" for example the outbound z/OS Connect...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Ignore unexpected fields in the Response to apiRequester call in Open API V2

We have CICS Transactions issuing apiRequester calls to various distributed applications. Occasionally we find that these distributed applications may add new fields to the response as part of a new release, often without notifying the application...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

generic BAQCSTUB in SBAQLIB to merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1

Please merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1 into a single dataset or use distinct program names across the two datasets. Using unique program names when unique functionality is required allows customers to use LinkList to pull the version of zOS Connect int...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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