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z/OS Connect

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Desire to propagate zCEE API name through to CICS request

When a CICS API request is made via zCEE, different APIs (and API names) have the potential to utilise the same transaction IDs in CICS, making it impossible to properly understand the workload being driven inside CICS in terms of the various zCEE...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to parameter specific TimeOut by API

Now, ZCEE provides a asyncRequestTimeout parameter which allows to limit the request time for all the API in the server. However, it would be useful to be able to manage exception on an API basis.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support a more generic rest api provider in zCEE services ( for zowe, zOSMF etc)

A typical mf application consists of transactions(IMS,CICS,...MQ), maybe some Databases(DB2), but also some datasets, files. It would be beneficiary to be able to include a mix in the zOSConnect defined apis from all of theese sources. Today we ca...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 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...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Apply Service Interface File properties on copybook import

Provide a mechanism in the zCEE API Toolkit so that during creation of a service project, after a copybook has been imported in the Service Interface Editor, there is an option to have the API toolkit lookup a supplied file that contains old name ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add command to flush z/OS Connect authentication cache

We are running z/OS Connect 3.0.18 on z/OS 2.2 and have the following defined in server.xml: <authentication id="Basic" cacheEnabled="true" /> This results in user's credentials being cached for the default 10 minutes. However, even after we...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add more options to Attribute characterWhiteSpace

Currently, the build toolkit properties file attribute characterWhiteSpace=COLLAPSE removes all leading, trailing, and embedded white space from type string fields. Furthermore, the same option replaces with single space characters all tabs, new l...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Suppress or obfuscate queryString in SMF123 records

Currently SMF123 records expose query parameters in RESTFUL requests as queryStrings. Enterprises using Z/OS Connect EE should have the option to suppress or obfuscate queryStrings in SMF123 records to both ensure that comply with GDPR / DP / PSD2...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect V3 deployment

From my application developer: The current system allows me to deploy both the Service and the API directly to the z/OS Connect Server. There are opportunities to optimize the process.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration