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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 20, 2025

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Support for multiple distribution paths

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'- Supports only a single deployment directory per build file type for both inbound and outbound
 (ex) <WLP_USER_DIR>/servers/<serverName>/resources/zosconnect/services
- It is impossible to separate folders by application code (customer, receipt, credit, etc.) and control permissions in KB.
- Support for more than two distribution paths per type (or support for configuring the distribution directory as a subfolder by application code) is required.
 (alternative 1) multiple distribution path
 <WLP_USER_DIR>/servers/<serverName>/resources/zosconnect/services1
 <WLP_USER_DIR>/servers/<serverName>/resources/zosconnect/services2
 (alternative 2) Deploys build files distributed to the specified path as well as its subfolders.
 <WLP_USER_DIR>/servers/<serverName>/resources/zosconnect/services and all of its subfolders

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2025

    It's for specifying multipath in a single server. 
    This is required to run multiple applications on a single instance(server) and so it's required to distribute application source codes to different paths by application.

  • Admin
    Demelza Farrer
    Reply
    |     Mar 10, 2025

    This requirement has been evaluated. Looking at current plans, and the requirement details, it is not likely that

    this would be implemented in future zOS Connect releases.

    To achieve locations of API files (AARs and SARs) we recommend using multiple servers. Alternatively, with the latest zOSConnect-3.0 runtime, a configuration can be added to specify the location of each API.

    Note:     zosConnect-3.0 feature which is currently applicable to OpenAPI 3 APIs specifications. IBM intends to extend the support of the zosConnect-3.0 feature to include all versions of the OpenAPI specification. As such the functionality in the zosConnect-2.0 feature will not be updated to support this.

    This IDEA is therefore being closed

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