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z/OS Connect

Enhance z/OS Connect, IMS, CICS and Db2 to support RACF identity token for authentication

There is a capability in zOS called RACF identity tokens. There is article about using this in Db2 here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/jim-pickel/2024/05/15/token-authentication-in-db2-13-for-zos and more info here: https://www.ib...
6 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

I’d like you to enable Base64 encoding.

I’d like you to make it possible to use Base64 encoding to prevent truncation, alteration, or garbling when setting values in JSON that may contain control characters or arbitrary bytes in the 0x00–0xFF range, and/or to embed (serialize) images, k...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect Functionality already exists

Provide file system logger interceptor under openAPI3

We are planning to introduce OpenAPI3 servers into our estate. We currently have OpenAPI2 servers. Under OpenAPI2 IBM provide and support the file system logger interceptor to log API request and responses to a file. Under OpenAPI3, this functiona...
8 days ago in z/OS Connect Submitted

Enhancement to Liberty feature mpOpenAPI-2.0 to filter OpenAPI documentation for a single API application.

Enhance the Liberty feature mpOpenAPI-2.0 to provide a mechanism to be able to view only the OpenAPI documentation for one specific deployed API application, when viewing the OpenAPI documentation served from the <host>:<port>/openapi ...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

To add maxLength validation on Date/time fields during copybook and WAR file generation

Currently z/OS Connect gives below error when maxLength keyword is provided along with Date/time fields.We have this keyword from the non z/OS APIs we consume . BAQP0017W: Failed to process operation (operationId: getRelationBasic, path: /v1/CRM/R...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Under review

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...
12 months ago in z/OS Connect Future consideration

Support http/2.0 via zosconnect_endpointConnection config element

As http/2.0 is more secure than http/1.1, we have received requests for communicating remote servers with http/2.0 via API requester. It is crucial for our critical business services.
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Under review

Enhance z/OS Connect EE to support retrieval of a list of outbound requests (API Requesters) deployed on z/OS Connect EE servers configured with OpenAPI 3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides robust functionality to list APIs via its management interfaces. However, it lacks an equivalent feature for listing API Requesters(Outbound requests)—representing outbound API calls—deployed on a z/OS Connect E...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect Planned for future release

Allow (zOSConnect-3.0) Audit Interceptor to be configured at specific API level.

Currently for zOSConnect-3.0 (openAPI3), Audit Interceptor can only be configured at Global level for all Provider and Requestor APIs in the server.This limits the ability to log API specific custom-headers to SMF, as we could only provide 4 heade...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

Introduce some parameter to enable basic auth and OIDC(ADFS) be mixed.

Hi guys, I hope you are well. We have third party authentication using OIDC (ADFS) feature in zCEE to access ADFS server. To do this we don’t use EJBROLES, only ALL_AUTHENTICATED_USERS. I have to enable SAF to get access thru EJBROLES as well, So ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS Connect Not under consideration

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