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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 18, 2022

Support a more generic rest api provider in zCEE services ( for zowe, zOSMF etc)

A typical mf application consists of transactions(IMS,CICS,...MQ), maybe some Databases(DB2), but also some datasets, files. It would be beneficiary to be able to include a mix in the zOSConnect defined apis from all of theese sources. Today we can have in an api services that supports transactions(CICS,IMS,..), databases DB2Rest, but no way to for example return or list datasets through zOSM apis. A generic REST provider would be great for this? It can be used to include services from zowe,zOSMF based apis and share the same logging/security and structure as other services. The DB2Rest must be almost there...already.
Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Demelza Farrer
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    Nov 15, 2022

    This requirement has been evaluated. There is no intention to implemented this in a future zOS Connect releases. z/OS Connect is not an API Gateway for Z. Existing REST APIs should be integrated into an API Gateway along with those developed and deployed in z/OS Connect. So, correspondingly this requirement is being rejected. IBM offerings.

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