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z/OS Connect

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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...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 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...
over 3 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...
over 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....
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE)

Provide direct IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect via REST/JSON APIs.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Pass Application credentials when using z/OS Connect for DB2

As part of a PoC on z/OS Connect specifically calling to DB2, it was found that the application credentials are not being passed all the way through to DB2. Over the last several years we have changed our Security model with things like DB2 Stored...
over 6 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Enhance z/OS Connect Admin Services for CICS Service Provider

The z/OS Connect Admin services call for a CICS Service Provider only responds with the CICS Program name that was defined in the Service. I would like the CICS Tran id and Connection Reference that were specified when the Service was created to a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system

A lot of input messages for transactions contain a timestamp telling the transaction program when an input message has been sent by a distributed application or by a host system of a business partner. For instance application-based transaction exp...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Support for Cobol Decimal fields 9(x).9(y)

We require support for the mapping of real decimal fields in Cobol -- in the form of PIC 9(x).9(y)..
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered