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z/OS Connect

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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...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 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...
over 4 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...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Service Project Editor Enhancement

When there is a change to the mainframe CICS program’s commarea structure, the only way to get the changes in, is to Import the entire changed structure and do all the Interface mappings all over again! This potentially causes issues if we are not...
almost 3 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 4 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.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

enhancement to ZOSConnect APi call monitor

It is very difficult to troubleshoot API issues in ZOS Connect. You can set the trace level high and see some information in trace.log but trace.log is not easily readable. It would be great to see something user friendly on monitoring API calls a...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor

Enhance the audit interceptor to allow the optional logging to SMF123 records of key-value pairs from the HTTP request and response headers
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

We want to make a global requireSecure available for API requesters

For zosconnect_apiRequesters element, the apiRequester sub-element has both requireAuth and requireSecure defined. We understand that requireAuth is available at a higher level to cover all zosconnect_apiRequesters. We have a need for requireSecur...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered