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z/OS Connect

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Support multiple containers when calling a CICS program using channel

Although WOLA supports multiple containers when invoking a CICS program using a channel interface, z/OS Connect EE only supports a single channel.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Enable RACF Keyring changes to take affect without bouncing zOS Connect

If we add a certificate to RACF keyring that serves as the zCEE Truststore to enable TLS handshake with an endpoint, we have to bounce the server for it to be recognized. Truststores should be capable of dynamic refresh or dynamically reload via a...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Have zCEE identify itself using User-Agent

Currently when using z/OS Connect REST service provider to communicate with a middleware product like DB2 the user cannot configure which headers are passed or their values. This RFE is requesting new functionality that would pass from z/OS Connec...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Enable ID Assertion at individual API requester level

ID Assertion capability (to propagate security credentials from z/OS Applications onto z/OS Connect EE) got introduced with 3.0.24. It is a valuable one. But it can be configured ONLY at Global level (zosconnect_apiRequesters) within a runtime. Th...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enhance zOS Connect to Refresh by service name

Currently zOS Connect refreshes all sar, aar, ara file types for an entire directory instance. This is a request to enhance ZSCONCMD to refresh by specific service names.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Allow multiple API Requesters for an API

Currently, when deploying API Requester whose target API is already defined in another API Requester, an error message similar to this is logged in message.log: BAQR1105E: z/OS Connect EE API requester name GeoAccount-Go-API_2.0.0 in /amex/zosconn...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

API First support z/OS Connect EE

To expose z/OS assets as API's our team uses z/OS Connect as part of a chain that's based on an API Design First approach. We need the possibility to generate all the needed z/OS Connect assets and Cobol copybooks based on that API First. We even ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

zCEE API Toolkit support for VARCHAR in Cobol

API Toolkit does not provide an efficient support for VARCHAR in Cobol.Example Cobol copybook:03 CUSTNAME. 49 CUSTNAME-X PIC X(080). 49 CUSTNAME-L PIC S9(04) COMP. Resulting JSON:"CUSTNAME" : { "type": "object", "properties": { "CUSTNAME-X": { "ma...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Add a list of groups to z/os Connect globalInvokeGroup

The globalInvokeGroup element only allows a single group (assume RACF group profile), however, we need multiple RACF group profiles in order to support our development and testing. This would be similar to the multiple group support provided in th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Please update SMF123 to allow for records in milliseconds

The current implementation only allows hour-mins-secs to be collected in SMF123. We would like to get milliseconds into the report.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered