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z/OS Connect

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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

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

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

Support for Push-Only Traffic from IMS via z/OS Connect API Requester

We are seeing an increased requirement for the mainframe transactional systems to publish updates to distributed systems. Products like Change Data Capture allow us to do this for data that is logged to database or file (typically structured data)...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Sysplex Distributor Support for z/OS Connect - SERVERWLM for DVIPAs

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhance API Requester resilience

To improve API Requester resilence with a tactic similar to Circuit Breaker pattern
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 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