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Omit low-valued numerics: New advanced output option for z/OS Connect services.

We want to have a new service advanced output option like "Omit low-valued numerics". Or we want to have the "Omit fields with uniform byte values 0x00" advanced output option to take effect on numeric fields as it does on non-numeric field ? It n...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Update IMS Data bases directly via a Z/OS Connect EE API/Service without using an IMS transaction

We have customers who are interested in using ZOS Connect EE APIs and Services to update their IMS data bases directly without having to use an IMS transaction. We currently have Z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition installed in house. We also are usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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

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