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z/OS Connect

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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 ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide CICS container visibility in z/OS Connect EE

z/OS Connect EE (service provider) delivers the capability to expose existing CICS assets based on CICS Containers. Alas though unlike CICS TS and CICS IA there appears to be no method to ascertain what CICS containers are being used by a given Se...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Update CICS Service Provider to produce connector statistics

We would like to be able to monitor the connection statistics for the CICS SOR backends and whilst the IMS provider does use JCA, the CICS provider does not and therefore no JCA MXBean is provided which would allow z/OS Connect to gather the stati...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Support Multiple IP-addresses in z/OS Connect EE

Our client is making an outbound API call from CICS using z/OS Connect EE. Client's API team presented us with three IP-addresses for their API server. The addresses was pointed to the same server with each corresponding to an availability zone fo...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect MQ one-way notification

z/OS Connect 1-Way operation MQPut. When a request is processed the MQPut successfully writes the message to the queue but no response is returned to the browser to confirm the request failed or was successful.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

specification error in API POST body results in token validation error, while we expect a specification error

To test one of our API's we deliberately changed the body of an API POST. When doing that the customer gets an HTTP 500 error and ZCEE signals a security related error message (token validation error) while we expect a specification error.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Field/Header Validation

Provide basic validation for input API fields.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Provide API Name in addition to field name for GMOMW0005E / GMOMW0021E error in zOS Connect

Currently we are debugging a lot of GMOMW0005E errors and they only provide the field name that encountered the error. Initially these were easy to debug but now that the environment is growing at a rapid pace it is near impossible as the error on...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Update IMS Data bases directly via a Z/OS Connect EE API/Service without using an IMS transaction

We have customers who are interested in using ZOS Connect EE APIs and Services to update their IMS data bases directly without having to use an IMS transaction. We currently have Z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition installed in house. We also are usin...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Keep Array Counter Fields in Response

The Array Count-by option to limit the number of records in an array provides a large performance increase, however there is a trade-off that you always lose that field from the data area itself. I request that the field used to count the number o...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

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