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z/OS Connect

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Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

TimeBoxing BAQCSTUB in IMS transactions

IMS transactions have high performance with very short process time measured in milliseconds. When they are enhanced to make outbound API calls using BAQCSTUB, they are subjected to latency from the network and the API providers. Currently, parame...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect EE 3.x - SMF 123 enhancement to capture failure events

Part of enhancing SMF 123 record structure for z/OS Connect (both API provider and API requester), Please consider to capture ONLY the first failure (similar to FFDC) related data for any repeated USER enforced failures.. Eg., Authorization failur...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to connect to z/OS Connect API Toolkit with MFA

When login, we are using a MFA password composed with a personal code followed by a single-use token.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Raise more error details to calling client

When an error occurs in a service in CICS, an ABEND ASRA for instance, it would be very helpful if the description of the error was raised up in the detail field up to the API calling client. For instance, instead of of receiving just ""errorMessa...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE.

Remove the requirement to use bundled Liberty Profile with z/OS Connect EE. Give the option of using the embedded version OR the client version of the runtime. Currently z/OS Connect comes with an embedded Liberty runtime which is located away fro...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

zOSCEE - Share Base Path

API project 1 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev1 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /withdraw API project 2 API name : corebanking_1.0_dev2 basepath : corebanking path of operation : /querybalance. zCEE reports error when deploy the second pr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Allow functions to be applied to the Request and Response mappings of APIs

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include functions. I have included some examples below in the use case section, but the mapping capability within API Toolkit should ideally be aligned to that provided by API C...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

image file transfer through z/OS Connect inbound scenario

I submit this RFE on behalf of JIM (Jabatan Imigrisen Malaysia) per customer request. JIM have requirement on image file transfer through z/OS Connect with inbound processing.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Need a tool to batch ".SAR" creation.

We want to batch the IMS service creation instead of using the API Toolkit.We have more than 4500 service to migrate from our actual SOA plateform. We need an industrial way to generate ".sar(s)".
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration