Product Documentation
Abstract
This document lists the customer requirements or requests for enhancements (RFEs) that have been delivered in version 3.0 of IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (z/OS Connect EE).
Content
As of March 2022, all existing RFEs from the IBM Request For Enhancement (RFE) Community were migrated to the IBM Z Software Ideas portal. Corresponding RFE numbers and Ideas are included in the table where applicable.
Click the link in the "Idea Reference" column to display the information about each Idea (customer requirement) in the IBM Z Software Ideas portal.
If you have an enhancement request that you need but it is not delivered yet, refer to Open and vote for an enhancement request for IBM Z Software products
You must apply all the available service fixes to ensure that you have the latest version of z/OS Connect EE V3.0 that incorporates all these requirements.
| RFE ID | Idea Reference | Headline |
| 85757 | ZCEE-I-76 | Remove requirement to use bundled WOLA libraries for CICS |
| 85959 | ZCEE-I-63 | Control over JSON transform stripping out low value '00'/non-printable characters |
| 86399 | ZCEE-I-63 | z/OS Connect: Enable back-end service selection based on a header value (intelligent routing) (Delivered in V3.0.10: APAR PI98232) |
| 87634 | ZCEE-I-73 | Use OAuth and JWT Access Tokens to authenticate and identify consumers of our APIs |
| 87861 | ZCEE-I-67 | Provide a token which will allow correlation of a z/OS Connect request and the work executed in the related z/OS subsystem(s) (Delivered in V3.0.16: APAR PH05647 and V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 87866 | ZCEE-I-70 | z/OS Connect: set dynamic code page selection by a header value (Delivered in V3.0.10: APAR PI98232) |
| 87953 | ZCEE-I-71 | Splunk Integration for Logging & Monitoring (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 87955 | ZCEE-I-77 | Support for COBOL copybooks with Redefine clause |
| 89530 | ZCEE-I-86 | API mapping supports codepage convert for specific field (Delivered in V3.0.2: APAR PI85054) |
| 89540 | Support outbound from CICS (Delivered in V3.0.1: APAR PI83949) | |
| 89924 | ZCEE-I-78 | z/OS Connect - Provide a complete fully supported solution for dynamic updates (for example: updateTrigger mbean) |
| 92530 | ZCEE-I-81 | Support multiple containers when calling a CICS program using channel |
| 93459 | ZCEE-I-84 | z/OS Connect audit interceptor does not record query parameter (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 94651 | ZCEE-I-88 | zCEE to add support for basic authentication without requiring CLIENT-CERT (Delivered in V3.0.33: APAR PH24143) |
| 94985 | -- | Support for large data structures in IMS |
| 95247 | ZCEE-I-91 | API Mapping Editor - Allow query parameters with multiple values (Delivered in V3.0.9: APAR PI96947) |
| 95729 | ZCEE-I-94 | Conditional transformation |
| 96036 | ZCEE-I-97 | z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API (Delivered in V3.0.16: APAR PH05647) |
| 97137 | ZCEE-I-99 | Specify non keyboard printable characters in zOSCEE |
| 97352 | ZCEE-I-93 | PL/I PICUTRE Data Type Support Required in z/OS Connect EE |
| 97410 | ZCEE-I-95 | Support multiple and nested OCCURS DEPENDING ON (Complex ODO) clauses in COBOL-JSON data transform |
| 97981 | ZCEE-I-101 | Need offline zosconnect Knowledge center |
| 99491 | ZCEE-I-102 | Option to tolerate uninitialised / SPACE data in numeric fields during dataxform transformation |
| 100106 | ZCEE-I-104 | Provide back-end data in Interceptor (Delivered in V3.0.16: APAR PH05647) |
| 100270 | ZCEE-I-107 | Access to http headers in CICS-based service provider programs when called via CICS-Embedded zCEE (Delivered in V3.0.8: APAR PI95501) |
| 100280 | ZCEE-I-103 | IMS DB access thru z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (zCEE) (Delivered in V3.0.31: APAR PH22287) |
| 101682 | ZCEE-I-108 | z/OS Connect EE write to operator (WTO) error messages |
| 103012 | ZCEE-I-110 | Error message in JOBLOG and automatic reconnection ZCEE/ANGEL |
| 103550 | ZCEE-I-124 | z/OS Connect EE: provide for outbound API calls from z, enabling z programs to be consumers of APIs, with simplicity (Delivered in V3.0.1: APAR PI83949) |
| 104791 | ZCEE-I-118 | z/OS Connect EE using z/OS Unicode service to do the code page conversion |
| 105170 | ZCEE-I-132 | Copy Replacing : Automatic changes for existing copy |
| 105758 | ZCEE-I-114 | z/OS Connect EE: Suppress null fields from response (Delivered in V3.0.3: APAR PI88611) |
| 110100 | ZCEE-I-170 | Enable support for ENUM Usage in BAQJS2LS Utility (Delivered in V3.0.5: APAR PI92254) |
| 110736 | ZCEE-I-154 | z/OS Connect: From a Cobol copybook, expose Cobol variables as JSON fields of type Boolean - define and map type Boolean (Delivered in V3.0.26: APAR PH16810) |
| 111086 | ZCEE-I-174 | Dynamically detect server.xml include files |
| 111093 | ZCEE-I-131 | Support special characters in uri parameters (Delivered in V3.0.4: APAR PI90096) |
| 112082 | ZCEE-I-159 | One-Click deployment of API & SAR (Delivered in V3.0.4: APAR PI90096) |
| 112312 | ZCEE-I-135 | Creating DB2 services using the API Toolkit (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.7.0) |
| 112775 | ZCEE-I-161 | Preserving service interface customisations in the API Toolkit service projects upon re-import of an updated copybook (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.6.0) |
| 112810 | ZCEE-I-137 | Simplified JSON structures when generating bottom-up services from CICS channel applications (Delivered in V3.0.55: APAR PH43628) |
| 113573 | ZCEE-I-187 | Allow headless build of APIs (Delivered in V3.0.8: APAR PI95501) |
| 113784 | ZCEE-I-142 | HTTP 4* vs HTTP 500 when encountering messages GMOMW* (Delivered in V3.0.7: APAR PI94081) |
| 113818 | ZCEE-I-173 | Provide capability to skip domain name check during Root CA certificate validation in outbound case (Delivered in V3.0.6: APAR PI93830) |
| 114542 | ZCEE-I-139 | API specific policy rules (Delivered in V3.0.11: APAR PI99563) |
| 115247 | ZCEE-I-181 | Plugins needed to generate deployable zOS Connect artifacts (Delivered in V3.0.8: APAR PI95501) |
| 116066 | ZCEE-I-195 | Add a list of groups to z/os Connect globalInvokeGroup (Delivered in V3.0.20: APAR PH09950) |
| 117569 | ZCEE-I-156 | Include failed requests in Interceptor (Delivered in V3.0.9: APAR PI96947) |
| 117706 | ZCEE-I-201 | Automated build of deployable SAR and AAR from API toolkit projects (Delivered in V3.0.8: APAR PI95501) |
| 117905 | ZCEE-I-204 | z/OS Connect - No error description is returned for length validation on server for IMS APIs (Delivered in V3.0.7: APAR PI94081) |
| 120068 | ZCEE-I-236 | Enhance z/OS Connect to Refresh by service name |
| 120209 | ZCEE-I-218 | About processing of multiple layout of host side response message with z/OS Connect (MQSP) (Delivered in V3.0.32: APAR PH23299) |
| 120347 | ZCEE-I-176 | Pass Application credentials when using z/OS Connect for DB2 (Delivered in V3.0.15: APAR PH05461) |
| 120745 | ZCEE-I-226 | Support calling MIME type versioned APIs (Delivered in V3.0.43: APAR PH34379) |
| 121013 | ZCEE-I-244 | Persist connections between IMS and z/OS Connect EE in API requester scenario (Delivered in V3.0.10: APAR PI98232) |
| 121561 | ZCEE-I-251 | Data Conversion issue for array elements in input - z/OS Connect (Delivered in V3.0.12: APAR PH01052) |
| 121818 | ZCEE-I-180 | Need the support ( "CHAR-VARYING=NO") in API requester design (Delivered in V3.0.25: APAR PH15511) |
| 122951 | ZCEE-I-259 | ZCEE policy rule property ltermOverrideName (Delivered in V3.0.40: APAR PH30597) |
| 123173 | ZCEE-I-263 | Service level transaction expiry support for IMS OTMA (Delivered in V3.0.40: APAR PH30597) |
| 123274 | ZCEE-I-191 | z/OS Connect swagger copy paste for request body support |
| 123437 | ZCEE-I-266 | Create a DSECT for SMF123-1 (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 123596 | ZCEE-I-171 | Preferred/failover config for IPIC |
| 124693 | ZCEE-I-272 | z/OS Connect EE - Enable multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to Global Interceptors (Delivered in V3.0.20: APAR PH09950) |
| 125177 | -- | z/OS Connect EE to pick up security changes without commands or restart |
| 125332 | ZCEE-I-177 | Tracking the correlation id (trace-id) for monitoring in SMF Data (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 125401 | ZCEE-I-280 | API Requester configuration server.xml vs ara file |
| 125402 | ZCEE-I-245 | Authentication and identity propagation for API Requesters (Delivered in V3.0.43: APAR PH34379) |
| 126468 | ZCEE-I-192 | zCEE service should allow a variable or inherit a connection profile |
| 126670 | ZCEE-I-282 | Line Numbers on Copy Record Parse error messages (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.6.3) |
| 126682 | ZCEE-I-208 | Allow Multi APIs to use the same Base Path |
| 126908 | ZCEE-I-196 | z/OS Connect EE - Policies to support DB2 via REST Client Service Provider (Delivered in V3.0.36: APAR PH27162) |
| 126918 | ZCEE-I-291 | Multiple modes of authentication for an same API (Delivered in V3.0.17: APAR PH06570) |
| 126986 | ZCEE-I-295 | Limitation of the default Field size of all fields (Delivered in V3.0.13: APAR PH02414) |
| 127364 | ZCEE-I-222 | Require override for API requester in server.xml under zosconnect_apiRequesters (Delivered in V3.0.29: APAR PH19949) |
| 127626 | ZCEE-I-301 | Update SMF123 to allow for records in milliseconds |
| 128166 | ZCEE-I-264 | Need controls for setting array size based on user-defined Counter variable (Delivered in V3.0.23: APAR PH13344) |
| 129245 | ZCEE-I-241 | Policy Rule to use Header value simply IF header is present (Delivered in V3.0.40: APAR PH30597) |
| 129393 | ZCEE-I-314 | Help identify corrupt APIs in seconds (Delivered in V3.0.21: APAR PH11043) |
| 129432 | ZCEE-I-214 | Change the path of the extensions directory with the properties files to our naming conventions |
| 130212 | ZCEE-I-246 | For API Requester capability in CICS, need to call zOS Connect server instance dynamically like from IMS or MVS batch (Delivered in V3.0.37: APAR PH28518) |
| 130730 | ZCEE-I-250 | ZCONBT upgrade should have its Version number incremented (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 131148 | ZCEE-I-257 | z/OS Connect API -> Transaction Tracing (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 131149 | ZCEE-I-260 | z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 131357 | ZCEE-I-329 | Support over 32KB z/OS Connect EE API Requester payload size for IMS application |
| 131827 | ZCEE-I-288 | Allow Basic Authorization in API Requester Using CICS |
| 132095 | ZCEE-I-265 | API Toolkit enhance swagger info object to include contact object (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.8.3) |
| 132315 | ZCEE-I-223 | Support greater than 32K length field in Request and in Response (Delivered in V3.0.25: APAR PH15511) |
| 132949 | ZCEE-I-297 | Enhancement to ZOSConnect APi call monitor |
| 133326 | ZCEE-I-302 | Add "user named code page" support in API toolkit (Delivered in V3.0.32: APAR PH23299 and API Toolkit V3.0.8.1) |
| 133546 | ZCEE-I-235 | Have zCEE identify itself using User-Agent (Delivered in V3.0.24: APAR PH14597) |
| 133929 | ZCEE-I-242 | z/OS Connect EE - Selective Tracking Stakeholder Identifier Request (Delivered in V3.0.23: APAR PH13344) |
| 134739 | ZCEE-I-284 | z/OS Connect SMF123 Enhancements for identified the caller (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 136520 | ZCEE-I-254 | Refresh artifacts on server at a more granular level |
| 136555 | ZCEE-I-286 | DB2 SAR uri override (Delivered in V3.0.29: APAR PH19949) |
| 136976 | ZCEE-I-261 | Allow credentials needed for full authentication in IMS to be passed from zCEE (Delivered in V3.0.33: APAR PH24143) |
| 137188 | ZCEE-I-268 | Support for chunked data from an API requester application in API requester mode |
| 137593 | ZCEE-I-270 | Add HTTP headers to SMF123 audit interceptor (Delivered in V3.0.30: APAR PH19977) |
| 137972 | ZCEE-I-292 | Enable cut and paste from properties tab in toolkit for API url and doc (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.7.1) |
| 138914 | ZCEE-I-278 | Authentication and identity propagation for API Rest DB2 |
| 139111 | ZCEE-I-296 | Preserve mappings when replacing a service in API method (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.6.2) |
| 140161 | ZCEE-I-324 | z/OS Connect API customizable JSON request/response |
| 140898 | ZCEE-I-6 | Allow use of file system logger and user-implemented interceptors with API Requesters (Deliver in V3.0.39: APAR: PH30278) |
| 141033 | ZCEE-I-13 | Sending custom OAuth 2.0 claims in Access Token Request from CICS (Delivered in V3.0.51 / APAR PH41351) |
| 141233 | ZCEE-I-283 | ARInvokeHandler sets the Accept to always be MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON this needs to be configurable (Delivered in V3.0.43: APAR PH34379) |
| 141274 | ZCEE-I-305 | Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes (Delivered in V3.0.45 / APAR PH36068) |
| 141480 | ZCEE-I-15 | Enhance SMF 123.1 for API requester to write asserted ID (Delivered in V3.0.45 / APAR PH36068) |
| 141606 | ZCEE-I-287 | Enable use of the IBM API Connect for outbound APIs |
| 141865 | ZCEE-I-306 | Possibility to suppress the server URL in error messages (Delivered in V3.0.35: APAR PH26291) |
| 142466 | ZCEE-I-318 | Support for IMS Large Data Service (Delivered in V3.0.38: APAR PH29265 and API Toolkit V3.0.8.7) |
| 142474 | ZCEE-I-322 | Enhance z/OS Connect Admin Services for CICS Service Provider (Delivered in V3.0.41: APAR PH32637) |
| 142615 | ZCEE-I-337 | Enable ID Assertion at individual API requester level (Delivered in V3.0.45 / APAR PH36068) |
| 143074 | ZCEE-I-354 | Support for OAuth 2.0 client_credentials grant type using an X.509 certificate signed JWT (Delivered in V3.0.51 / APAR PH41351) |
| 143108 | ZCEE-I-327 | Enable RACF Keyring changes to take affect without bouncing zOS Connect (Delivered in V3.0.43 / APAR PH34379) |
| 143562 | ZCEE-I-332 | MQ Provider data in Interceptor (Delivered in V3.0.42: APAR PH32853) |
| 143768 | ZCEE-I-25 | Timestamp in STDERR dataset (Delivered in V3.0.34: APAR PH25369) |
| 146060 | ZCEE-I-342 | SMF123 V2 don't capture info about API Requesters (Delivered in V3.0.45 / APAR PH36068) |
| 146654 | ZCEE-I-356 | Monetary Values and DEFAULT-FRACTION-DIGITS (Delivered in V3.0.43 / APAR PH34379) |
| 148484 | ZCEE-I-365 | Make a global requireSecure available for API requesters (Delivered in V3.0.45 / APAR PH36068) |
| 150699 | ZCEE-I-21 | z/OS Connect Logging |
| 151278 | ZCEE-I-372 | z/OS Connect log retention |
| 154228 | ZCEE-I-59 | Service Project Editor Enhancement (Delivered in API Toolkit V3.0.6.6 and V 3.2.6.6 / APAR PH11166) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-8 |
z/OS Connect API http headers (Delivered in V3.0.63 / APAR PH50283) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-30 |
Map DB2 REST service provider non 200 response to response message in zOS Connect (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-52 |
Userid information should be displayed in ZCEE Early Failure 401 Authorization requests logged by Omegamon/JVM (Delivered in V3.0.58 / APAR PH46461) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-55 |
Truncate Cobol Data Structure (Delivered in V3.0.59 / APAR PH47276) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-57 |
SMF 123 records should be logged for all access attempts to z/OS Connect (Delivered in V3.0.58 / APAR PH46461) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-128 |
z/OS Connect EE - provide a pass-through mapping option for HTTP headers (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-134 |
z/OS Connect JSON Parser needs to handle large numbers and not round numeric values (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-179 |
Apply service level authorization to API path requests (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-207 |
zCEE API Toolkit support for VARCHAR in Cobol (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-233 |
Timeout HA IPIC connection to CICS (Delivered in V3.0.56 / APAR PH45219) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-328 |
Reference to individual array member in the mapper (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-248 | External security manager support as an alternative for group access in server.xml (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-330 |
OpenAPI 3.0 support for API's hosted in z/OS Connect using API Provider (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-331 |
API Definition ? manual enter standard HTTP header field and cannot specify field ?description (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-339 |
DB2 REST Services Nullable Fields/Parameters (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-358 | Large PIC9 fields not managed by z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-359 | JSON pass-through support in z/OS Connect EE (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-361 |
Support Truncate Nulls and Truncate Null Arrays for the build toolkit for Top-Down service creation using JSON schemas (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-363 |
Ability to set the current timestamp into a request z/OS Connect sends to a backend system (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-364 | Finer grain client request API Security (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-367 |
Lightweight VS Code plugin for API editor (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-423 |
Date-Time service interface mapping (Delivered in V3.0.55 / APAR PH43628) |
| -- | ZCEE-I-424 |
z/OS Connect EE ARM support installation (Delivered in V3.0.63 / APAR PH50283) |
Related Information
Document Location
Worldwide
[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSNPJM","label":"IBM z\/OS Connect"},"ARM Category":[{"code":"a8m0z00000009lmAAA","label":"Maint Upgrades"}],"ARM Case Number":"","Platform":[{"code":"PF035","label":"z\/OS"}],"Version":"3.0","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB35","label":"Mainframe SW"}},{"Type":"MASTER","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB35","label":"Mainframe SW"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSGMGV","label":"CICS Transaction Server"},"ARM Category":[{"code":"a8m0z000000cwhqAAA","label":"Installing Configuring and Upgrading"}],"Platform":[{"code":"PF035","label":"z\/OS"}],"Version":"All Versions"},{"Product":{"code":"SSEPH2","label":"IBM Information Management System (IMS)"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Component":" ","Platform":[{"code":"PF035","label":"z\/OS"}],"Version":"","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB35","label":"Mainframe SW"}}]
Product Synonym
zCEE
Was this topic helpful?
Document Information
Modified date:
02 March 2023
UID
swg27049942