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Thank you for this RFE.
The current design of z/OS Connect EE does support a DevOps pattern for moving services between dev, test and production environments without having to change. There has to be some level of affinity between a service and where that service is running. The idea behind the connectionRef is to have the lowest possible affinity between services and environmental configuration. As long as you have the same logical connectionIDs defined in each of your dev, test, and production servers you are free to have the specifics and differences of the environmental config be completely transparent to the service.
You can read more about "How to move services between environments for DevOps" in our knowledge centre here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4SVW_3.0.0/designing/changing_connection.html
The DevOps lifecycle of our artefacts is important to us and being able to automate the build and deployment of services and APIs as been the sentiment behind RFEs that we have previously delivered eg RFE 113573:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewChangeRequest&CR_ID=113573
We hope that by using the functionality we have delivered, and following these recommended patterns, you are able to satisfy your requirements of promoting services between environments without change.