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z/OS Connect 3.0.92 now available

By Shruthi Krishnan posted Tue April 22, 2025 06:03 AM

z/OS Connect 3.0.92 now supports API requester policy based on the header value. For more information, see PH65640. If you’re new to IBM z/OS Connect, find out more here.

Announcements

Support for Aqua 3.2 (IBM Explorer for z/OS) will be withdrawn on 30 April 2025. Hence, we encourage you to move to the latest Aqua 3.4 platform that is built on Eclipse 4.31 and Java 17. For more information about support, see Product lifecycle: IBM Explorer for z/OS.

New

With the newly introduced policy enablement feature, you can use IBM z/OS Connect (zosConnect-3.0) policies to adjust how an API request is processed in IBM z/OS Connect, based on the header values sent in by the client. Previously, this capability was available only for API provider. Starting with 3.0.92, the feature is extended to API requester as well.

Clients can define the rule set which are then applied through the policies configured in the server.xml configuration file.

The following image gives you an architecture view of the API requester policy as handled in z/OS Connect 3.0:

This image gives you an architecture view of the API requester policy as handled in z/OS Connect 3.0.

Enhancements

Java 21 is now supported when running a z/OS Connect Server within a CICS Liberty JVM Server. For more information, see What's new in CICS TS 6.2?

Fixes

PH64559 - A javax.crypto.BadPaddingException is reported with securityUtility encoded passwords containing special characters.

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