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    Update audit interceptor to set SMF123S1_CLIENT_IP_ADDR to value of X-Forwarded-For when available

    Where requests are routed through load balancers and gateways the current SMF123S1_CLIENT_IP_ADDR value does not reflect the true IP address of the client, rather it holds the value of the gateway/load balancer. We require to know the true value w...
    6 months ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

    z/OS Connect 3.0 - Enforce authentication through server instead of / additional to API security role

    Enforce authentication either through the security role defined in the OpenAPI specification (x-ibm-zcon-roles-allowed) or through a default role defined / forced by the server configuration. Therefore it would be possible to prevent APIs without ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

    Enable a java stub to make an API requester call direct from a java programme

    Java isn't new on zOS yet zOS Connect seems to be behind the curve in support for java applications hosted on zOS. This request is to provide a stub like concept for use by java programs to enable them to call out to REST API endpoints directly wi...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

    A "kind" of STATEOD parameter similar to what exists in CICS

    SMF 123 records are written at the stop of the zOSconnect server or every 20 requests or at each request if it is set in the server.xml (bad idea for production environment) We would like to have a parameter similar to SATEOD in CICS to write the ...
    5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    IBM z/OS Connect 3.0 support of a OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

    Looking for zOS Connect 3.0 to support OAS 3.1 specs as an apiRequester Currently the apiRequester plugin does NOT support the consumption/parsing of an OAS 3.1 spec (per IBM doc) Below from (Release notes - IBM Documentation) Known issues and lim...
    3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

    Support for Java 17/21 in BAQLS2JS

    Currently BAQLS2JS only runs with Java 8. Running BAQLS2JS with Java 11 and later results in exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax.activation.DataHandler.EOS of Java 8 is Sep.30 2026 and customers will not be able to run BAQLS2JS after t...
    6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

    stopEntity() logging visibility

    For creating HA solution for ZCEE we have implemented Automation solutions by issuing REFRESH commands whenever an API or Services are being installed,updated,deleted etc.We pushed the message codes to the MVS Syslog, and that is how Automation pi...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

    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...
    5 months ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

    for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

    So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
    12 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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