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z/OS Connect

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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

Support for IMS transaction name length required

Our site uses variable length IMS transaction names.The current implementation of the API Toolkit with fix PH09920 allows to specify a transaction name that will either be padded with spaces for a maximum length of 8 characters or if the Space Del...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Provide meaningful error messages for z/OS Connect and API toolkit problems

Currently z/OS Connect provides for a lot of configuration errors, RACF and Unix System Services problems neither an error message in the JES Job Log nor an error message in the messages.log. Often the only way to get an impression of what may be ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

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...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

zOS Connect enable generics in zosConnectAPI name construct

in order to secure API using the authorizationInterceptor for access by different teams we currently have to specify every API and define the relevant access. With naming standards we can group these much more efficiently using generics for exampl...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 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...
7 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...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

API Requester Security flow jwt-bearer

With the two OAuth flows supported today by z/OS Connect: Client credentials (client_id + client_secret) Resource owner password credentials (client_id + client_secret + username + password) If we want to call a remote API from a mainframe applica...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect Field/Header Validation

Provide basic validation for input API fields.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

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