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web enablement toolkit

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z/OS Web Enablement - JSON Parser GNUV Fails on COBOL COMP-2 Floating Point Numbers

COBOL is not currently able to use the HWTJGNUV callable service for JSON numbers that are not integers..therefore...this is a Request for Enhancement (RFE) against the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to be able to handle floating point numbers...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Simple nested JSON index navigating

It would be nice to locate an entry nested within JSON by passing a string qualifying steps to get to it. For example for JSON: {"name": "My Object", "history":[ {"type":"Edit", "user":{"uid":123, "name":"Steve"}, "time":"2023-09-22T08:25:43.5...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

64-bit Web Enablement Toolkit

Support being called from a 64-bit LE environment. Would need this for both HTTP enabler and JSON parser.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Way to extract sub-object of parsed JSON

We'd like a way to parse a large JSON file but then extract the JSON for a given entry handle. So like HWTJGVAL but works for an object and turns the address and length of the JSON representing that object. For example, for the sample JSON: {"name...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

JSON parser

JSON parser toolkit does not allow the creation of an array as the root object which is a valid JSON construct. It is possible to create a root array object by parsing "[]" but the create service does not allow additional objects to be added to a ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 3 Future consideration

Support insecure mode in the Web Enablement Toolkit for SSL connections

The curl program provides insecure mode that bypasses verification of certificates during an SSL connection and allows the connection to proceed. This is not ideal in a production environment but very useful during application development when sel...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 2 Not under consideration

HTTP/HTTPS Protocol Enabler permit double quotes in cookies

The HTTP/HTTPS enabler needs to be more lenient with cookie values that contain double quotes. RFC 6265 section 4.1 does state that DQUOTES are not permitted in the Set-Cookie response header but then section 5.2 documents a more permissive algori...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Pass FILE handle on HWTH_OPT_VERBOSE_OUTPUT

The z/OS Connect EE product utilises the WET to communicate from a C stub library to the z/OS Connect server. As part of servicability work, we added the capability to redirect diagnostic logging to a DD, much like the HWTH_OPT_VERBOSE_OUTPUT opti...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

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