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z/OS Connect

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Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking

Enhance the z/OS Connect Configuration to Support External Security Manager Calls in place of Group Checking. This could be provided via a new parameter to instead check a RACF class such as EJBROLE as already done for the "safRoleMapper" statemen...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

High Availability Worload with IPIC

Need a real High Availability Worload when connecting zcee and CICS with IPIC. Not just fail over.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Add more options to Attribute characterWhiteSpace

Currently, the build toolkit properties file attribute characterWhiteSpace=COLLAPSE removes all leading, trailing, and embedded white space from type string fields. Furthermore, the same option replaces with single space characters all tabs, new l...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Suppress or obfuscate queryString in SMF123 records

Currently SMF123 records expose query parameters in RESTFUL requests as queryStrings. Enterprises using Z/OS Connect EE should have the option to suppress or obfuscate queryStrings in SMF123 records to both ensure that comply with GDPR / DP / PSD2...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Reuse BAQCSTUB existing connection from DB2 Stored Procedure

We ask to add to BAQCSTUB the capability to re-use the connection to z/OS Connect when called from DB2 stored Procedure.There is no way for the BAQCSTUB to persist its connection between invocations of the stored procedure in the WLM managed Exter...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ZCEE Provider support for unbounded Arrays

ZCEE determines an array only based on the OCCURS clause and looks like we have to provide a boundary (max length) for the arrays like in the copybook structure below which means that we cant allow unbounded arrays like in the case of CICS web ser...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support a more generic rest api provider in zCEE services ( for zowe, zOSMF etc)

A typical mf application consists of transactions(IMS,CICS,...MQ), maybe some Databases(DB2), but also some datasets, files. It would be beneficiary to be able to include a mix in the zOSConnect defined apis from all of theese sources. Today we ca...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Require a RESTful api to deploy policy files

We have a requirement for a RESTful api to deploy policy files
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

TimeZone control for BAQVERBOSE messages

Timestamps on BAQVERBOSE messages reflect UTC not the local TimeZone. We would like to have the ability to control this.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

remove requirement for var/zosconnect for product extensions

The product extensions, set up with command 'zconsetup' must be stored under the /var/zosconnect. This is described here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4SVW_3.0.0/com.ibm.zosconnect.doc/installing/setup_prod_extensions.html
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration