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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...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

zCEE - mechanism to pass parameters to zosconnect_authToken

We are using the zCEE to retrieve a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a third-party authorization server and pass it on a request to an API endpoint, as described here:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zosconnect/3.0?topic=jwt-calling-api-secured-third-partyIn ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

zCEE to call SAF for authentication

This is following on from RFE # 99337. Since the last RFE was submitted, the zCEE authorization interceptor has been extended to allow even more groups to be defined for more granular control of the various operations and actions permitted within ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

To support variable length string json payload for IMS API

Cobol does not have the notion of variable-length string. When a string in the Cobol copybook is mapped to JSON payload for z/OS Connect, it is set with the maximum length. Even when the actual JSON payload is smaller, z/OS Connect sends the full ...
over 3 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 ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
8 months 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.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow modification of minItems in API Toolkit while defining a service

This is a request to add an advanced option to the z/OS Connect API Toolkit to allow a consumer to choose/set the minItems value during a service creation. This setting would force the api toolkit to generate schema that force minItems to 0, inste...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Omit low-valued numerics: New advanced output option for z/OS Connect services.

We want to have a new service advanced output option like "Omit low-valued numerics". Or we want to have the "Omit fields with uniform byte values 0x00" advanced output option to take effect on numeric fields as it does on non-numeric field ? It n...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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