Developing APIs by using the z/OS Connect Designer
Download and start z/OS Connect Designer to develop and test APIs from an OpenAPI 3.0 document.
zosConnect-3.0 Applies to zosConnect-3.0.
Containers Applies to z/OS Connect container deployments.
The z/OS Connect Designer is a container-based web UI
tool that offers a wide set of capabilities:
- Support for enterprise standard OpenAPI 3.0 specification APIs.
- Allows contract first API creation by importing an OpenAPI 3.0 document as a starting point.
- Supports JSONata, a functional expression language for complex mappings between the API schemas and the z/OS application and data interfaces. For more information about JSONata, see What is JSONata? For more information about mapping between the API schemas and z/OS Assets in IBM® z/OS Connect Designer, see Mapping your API and z/OS Assets.
- Supports the creation of OpenAPI 3.0 definitions.
- Includes a built-in isolated development server for iterative development and testing.
There is a series of introductory how-to
videos on z/OS Connect Designer to accompany the topics in this
section. These videos demonstrate the wide set of capabilities available in the z/OS Connect Designer such as creating z/OS Assets, mapping an API request, defining response
conditions and much more. For more information, see the following play list z/OS
Connect Designer video tutorials.
