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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 25, 2025

z/OS Connect should abend after XML error at startup

Team,

It would be great to abend the z/OS Connect task instead of hanging there with an XML error at startup. That way our automation can detect that z/OS Connect task failed to come up.

 

Thanks for the response. Tried below options but still the z/OS Connect task hangs without failing/abending.

<config                      
     monitorInterval="10m"  
     onError="FAIL"         
     updateTrigger="mbean"/>

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Beth Williams
    Jul 8, 2025

    Thank you for your requirement. This is already addressed for z/OS Connect. To achieve this you can prevent the Liberty server (on which z/OS Connect runs) starting up when there is an error by using the "onError" Liberty config attribute. This is described here: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/config/config.html.

  • Guest
    Jun 25, 2025

    Sounds like great idea