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z/OS Connect

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z/OS Connect does not currently have a way to retrieve a list of the API requesters deployed in a server configured with OpenAPI3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides functionality to list APIs, but it lacks a feature for listing API Requesters deployed on a z/OS Connect EE Server configured with OpenAPI 3. In contrast, with OpenAPI 2, API Requesters can be listed by sending ...
5 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Enable tracing per API on zOS Connect OAS 3

Given that when enabling tracing (either binary or non binary), there's an impact on server performance, that affects all APIs deployed on that server, we'd like to have an option to enable tracing per api, so that when analyzing we'll only be imp...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 3 Under review

z/OS Connect - EntireX - Natural integration

It is requested to enhance the z/OS Connect product to provide API-REST interfaces to Natural modules and to allow API-REST interfaces to be invoked from Natural modules.Currently, the product is designed to provide API-REST interfaces to COBOL pr...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Add support for usage of data area for arrays in the request of API Clients using top down approach with z/OS Connect open api 3

When generating data structures for an API requester based on an OpenAPI file that includes an array in the request parameters, Gradle generates a data structure using a data area. However this is not supported right now since the host api verb BA...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

IMS API first approach

See https://github.com/zosconnect/sample-cics-api-first Would be great if this API first approach would not be limited to CICS, should also be possible for IMS. Eliminates the need to maintain the designer installation and learn how-to use the it....
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Auto mapping

Considering that there will be many fields, manually linking/mapping needs lots of efforts. If customer provide a mapping information (such like excel where API field name and COBOL field name are provided), can the toolkit imports excel file and ...
27 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect doesn't have all standard OAUTH provider authentication methods implemented as per RFC 6749 and

z/OS Connect currently only supports either basic authentication or private key JWT authentication methods ( 2.3.1 . Client Password) in RFC 6749 while authenticating with OAUTH JWT providers to procure the JWT token and inject into the API call. ...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 access token caching and life time JWT token management

We propose to be able to modify the behavior of z/OS Connect (OpenAPI 2) when tokens are close to expiration. In particular, we would need to be able to parametrize the residual time for which z/OS Connect requests a new token from the JWT Server ...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support outbound CICS --> REST API (OpenAPI v3) calls using a containerized solution on OpenShift

Currently the exposure of OpenAPI 3 REST APIs inbound to z/OS is supported on openshift x86 containerized architecture. Outbound calls from CICS to the REST API (OpenAPI v3) instead require the runtime to be installed on z/OS. This generates a dup...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Include CPU consumed by API in interceptors

Customer needs to determine APIs with high CPU to target for tuning. The customer uses OMEGAMON for JVM for API monitoring and they would like CPU per API included in detail reports.
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

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