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Status Delivered
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 8, 2019

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Allow Basic Authorization in API Requester Using CICS

Currently no authorization header is being passed when using API Requester in CICS. This allows anyone with access to the CICS region to run the API Request regardless of whether or not they exist in the GlobalInvokeGroup in the server.xml. IMS and MVS API Requester both allow passing of a Username/Password to be verified against the GlobalInvokeGroup. We propose the same functionality for CICS API Requester.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 15, 2019

    Thank you for this requirement.

    Basic Authentication to z/OS Connect EE from CICS as part of an API requester flow has been available from the start of V3 via the standard mechanisms for CICS Web Support Security.

    Step 2.b in "Configuring CICS to access z/OS Connect EE to call APIs" in the z/OS Connect EE Knowledge Center has links to more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4SVW_3.0.0/configuring/config_cics_commstub.html

    As such this RFE is being closed as 'Delivered'. You may also be interested in RFE 125402 "Authentication and identity propagation for API Requesters":
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewChangeRequest&CR_ID=125402
    This RFE aims to greatly improve and simplify security in API Requester.

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