Exploitation with Zowe

Zowe API Mediation Layer, one of the Zowe components, provides a gateway that acts as a reverse proxy for z/OS services, together with a catalog of REST APIs and a dynamic discovery capability.

You can onboard the System Automation Operations REST API to the Zowe API Mediation Layer. This integration makes the service discoverable by the API Mediation Layer Discovery Service, enable routing through the API Gateway, and make service information and API documentation available through the API Catalog. See Integration into Zowe API Mediation Layer.

Zowe CLI, a command-line interface, is another Zowe component. The Zowe CLI is to be installed on the client machine (PC, laptop, and so on) and allows the interaction with z/OS and many different products that are running on the mainframe. You can use this CLI to remotely work with z/OS data sets or jobs, and interact with products like CICS, IMS, NetView, and many others. These functions are being added to the basic Zowe CLI by installing so called "Zowe CLI Plug-ins".

System Automation provides a plug-in for Zowe CLI. This plug-in leverages the functions of the System Automation Operations REST Server and lets you extend Zowe to control resources managed by System Automation conveniently from a shell window that is running on your client PC. See Using the System Automation Plug-in for Zowe CLI to Operate System Automation.