z/OS Connect features

Use this section to find the latest levels of the IBM® z/OS Connect features.

Features are the units of functionality by which you control the pieces of the runtime environment that are loaded into a z/OS Connect Server. The latest feature levels are listed in Table 1 for z/OS Connect zosConnect-2.0 features and Table 2 for z/OS Connect zosConnect-3.0 features.

zosConnect-2.0 features

zosConnect-2.0 Applies to zosConnect-2.0.

z/OS Connect provides server templates that you can use to quickly create a new server. For more information, see Supplied server templates.

Table 1. zosConnect-2.0 feature. descriptions
Feature name	Configuration	Description
IBM z/OS Connect	`<feature>zosconnect:zosConnect-2.0</feature>`	Provides an interface between mobile and cloud devices and back-end systems on z/OS. It provides RESTful APIs and accepts and returns JSON payloads, and communicates with back-end systems on z/OS for data and transactions. It also provides built-in data transformation services that convert request and response payloads from/to JSON and byte arrays that are consumable by z/OS native language applications (supporting Cobol, PL/I, and C).
IBM z/OS Connect CICS® Service	`<feature>zosconnect:cicsService-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability to call CICS programs.
IBM z/OS Connect IMS service provider	`<feature>imsmobile:imsmobile-2.0</feature>`	This feature handles the interaction with IMS Connect for IMS Transaction Manager access, processes the request and response messages, and transforms data between JSON and bytes based on the defined service interfaces. Tooling support for creating IMS services and related service interfaces are provided by z/OS Connect API toolkit.
IBM z/OS Connect DB Service	`<feature>zosconnect:dbService-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability for z/OS Connect to access databases.
IBM z/OS Connect Modify Commands	`<feature>zosconnect:zosConnectCommands-1.0</feature>`	Allows the z/OS Connect product to respond to z/OS modify commands
IBM z/OS Connect API requester	`<feature>zosconnect:apiRequester-1.0</feature>`	z/OS Connect API requester feature
IBM MQ for z/OS service provider	`<feature>zosconnect:mqService-1.0</feature>`	Allows z/OS Connect to send and receive messages to and from IBM MQ destinations.

zosConnect-3.0 features

zosConnect-3.0 Applies to zosConnect-3.0.

Table 2. zosConnect-3.0 feature descriptions
Feature name	Configuration	Description
IBM z/OS Connect	`<feature>zosconnect:zosConnect-3.0</feature>`	Provides the ability to call OpenAPI 3 APIs.
IBM z/OS Connect CICS	`<feature>zosconnect:cics-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability to call CICS programs.
IBM z/OS Connect Db2®	`<feature>zosconnect:db2-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability to call Db2 services.
IBM z/OS Connect IMS	`<feature>zosconnect:ims-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability to call IMS applications.
IBM z/OS Connect OpenAPI 3 requester	`<feature>zosconnect:oasRequester-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability for z/OS applications to call APIs described with an OpenAPI 2.0 document or OpenAPI 3.0 document.
IBM z/OS Connect Monitoring	`<feature>zosconnect:monitoring-1.0</feature>`	Provides the ability to call monitoring interceptors in a z/OS Connect Server.
IBM z/OS Connect MCP	`<feature>zosconnect:mcp-1.0</feature>`	Provides an agentic AI method to get data from z/OS applications.