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z/OS Connect

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The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future 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

Make it possible to send an empty body with other http response code then 204 (no content)

Seems that when you use http response code other than 204 and you remove the body in your mapping that there is always a body of the tags above.It should be possible to define whether you want a body or not. For example: we want to use 202 without...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Remove parent tags from input and output bodies

When you make a API with an input body (JSON), you always have to give the parent tags of the service instead to those that really are related to the content of what you want.Same for the output body (JSON), where those parent tags are always show...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange for z/OS Connect

We would like to have the functionality of Token Exchange in OAuth 2.0 (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8693) directly enabled from z/OS Connect EE. This would enable us to use the 'extension' OAuth Grant Type to execute new token requests usin...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect to offer API's with content secured with digital signatures

We want to have the ability in z/OS Connect to use signing of outbound API requests and signature verification of inbound API requests.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Alternative response message structures in z/OS Connect

Response messages from transactions have not always the same structure. It is common to use a field telling the invocating application which structure to use for the variable part of the message. Currently it is not possible to handle such kinds o...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect to support the token being returned from the authorization server in a custom field in an OAuth 2.0 flow

We are using the z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support to obtain an access token from our EUA Authorization server. This retrieves the access token from the “access_token” field of the JSON response, as per the OAuth 2.0 specification. In the response th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

ZOS Connect EE : No CPU in SMF reccords

There no CPU consumption in SMF records , 120-11 or 123-1. This mandatory for us to get this value in statistic to be able to monitor easily the api requests.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Future consideration