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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 15, 2020

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Add additional properties to policy rules

Today with z/OS Connect policy files you can only use headers to make a decision on which CICS transaction and connection to use. What we are needing is a way to use the headers and other information such as the API operation, path, method e.g. to determine in our case which CICS transaction to use.

In our example we could have one API that provides many operations such as getCustomerInfo, updateCustomerInfo, createCustomer. Having many operations in a single Customer API we need to be able to specify a different transaction to use based on the operation.

The alternative is to create many API's with less operations with individual rules per operation. This approach seems very limited and you end up doing "un-natural" API design because of the current limitations

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 29, 2020

    Whilst this requirement is valid, based on our current plans and priorities for IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition, it is not likely that this could be implemented in the next 12 months. Correspondingly this requirement is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 8, 2020

    We met with the raiser who clarified the use case as follows:

    There are many callers of the API eg Mobile, Branch, Online etc. On any given operation there are unique transaction codes that correspond to each caller. These codes are used downstream for both tracking and routing through the system. Callers set their ID in a header of the API request. Policy rules can be used to filter on this ID and set a transaction code accordingly. The problem is, at the moment a rule can only be applied across all operations in the API so, for instance, if OperationA requires XOAM, XOAB or XOAO (for Mobile, Branch and Online) and OperationB requires XOBM, XOBB or XOBO then there is no way to have a policy rule that will set the transcodes correctly in both cases and so they have to be moved into separate APIs.

    If other have a similar use case please comment and/or vote on this RFE.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 20, 2020

    Thank you for raising this requirement. Would you consider achieving this by defining a service (on which you can set the TraqnID and Connection) for each of the invocation styles?
    The following link will guide you through the steps -
    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/designing/service_compose_interface.html
    If defining as a service doesn't meet your requirements please feedback your reasons.

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