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 enables you to route HTTP requests to remote REST endpoints. It also accepts and returns JSON payloads and communicates 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 1.2 feature, add the following element declaration into your server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>zosConnect-1.2</feature>

Feature configuration elements

Features that this feature enables

Supported Java versions

  • JavaSE-1.8

  • JavaSE-11.0

  • JavaSE-17.0

  • JavaSE-21.0

  • JavaSE-22.0

Developing a feature that depends on this feature

If you are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.zosConnect-1.2; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

SPI packages provided by this feature

  • com.ibm.wsspi.zos.connect