z/OS Connect

This feature provides a gateway between mobile, cloud, and web clients and z/OS back-end systems such as CICS Transaction Server, IMS, and batch applications. It provides RESTful APIs and accepts and returns JSON payloads. The feature enables communication with back-end systems by providing a data transformation service that converts JSON payloads to/from byte arrays consumable by z/OS native-language applications written in Cobol, PL/I, and C.

Enabling this feature

To enable the z/OS Connect feature, add the following element declaration inside the featureManager element in your server.xml file:

<feature>zosConnect-1.0</feature>

Supported Java versions

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on the z/OS Connect feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in the feature manifest file for your new feature:

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.zosConnect-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

Features that this feature enables

SPI packages provided by this feature

Feature configuration elements