Enterprises need a DevOps process to support agile development, testing, and deployment of services and APIs. When changes are made to your z/OS Connect EE services, APIs, or API requesters, you can use the z/OS Connect EE build toolkit, together with your source code management (SCM) system and DevOps solution, to support updates, testing, and deployment in a continuous delivery process.

With the build toolkit in z/OS Connect EE, this process is made possible for services and APIs that are created in the z/OS Connect EE API toolkit. The build toolkit can now generate the archive files based on files in the service projects or API projects. The archive files can then be deployed to the designated services or APIs directory by using REST calls, or via file copy if the server is configured to monitor changes to the designated service directory and API directory.

In this section, we will describe such a process, and demonstrate the process with IBM UrbanCode Deploy and a Git repository.