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z/OS Connect

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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...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
about 5 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 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Full ARRAY and STRUCT support in IMS Database Service Provider

We require IMS Database Service Provider services to support complex segments with (non-nested) ARRAY fields with many instances and many values per instance (which may be of different data types), using un-flattened array representation, with aut...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect log retention

In z/OS Connect, the Liberty runtime does only size-based log rolling and you can only specify the max number of files to keep. Customer is looking to retain the z/OS Connect log one day at a time and say keep them for a months time. Similar to Ap...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Change the path of the extensions directory with the properties files to our naming conventions

For now, there are 2 Directories under the ../var/... path. It is possible to adapt the Servers path to our naming conventions, but it is not yet possible for the extensions Directory..../var/zosconnect/extensions/... should NOT be hard coded.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Delivered

enable use of the IBM API Connect for outbound apis.

When defining outbound api configurations in zOS Connect as apiRequestors it is sometimes necessary to configure custom http-headers to be applied to the outbound api call. For example the "x-ibm-client-id" when targeting an api on IBM API Connect...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Require override for API requester in server.xml under zosconnect_apiRequesters

We have a requirement to set requireAuth=false for all API requester scenario. Today, you can do this by creating an apiRequester configuration element every time you deploy a new API requester function. This is not ideal since we don't want to up...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support greater than 32K length field in Request and in Response

Change z/OS Connect so that it is possible to identify one field in Request and/or one field in Response where there is no maximum length defined in advance, and that field can support several megabytes of data. For this requirement, we need one f...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

ZCEE policy rule property ltermOverrideName

We have multiple IMS environments running under a single IMS system Routing to an environment for a call through IMS Connect is based on the lterm/tpipe name in otma header field.Under ZCEE the filed is blank or hard coded in the ims-interactions....
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

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