z/OS Connect Community Blog

z/OS Connect 3.0.91 now available

By Kate Bittles posted 18 days ago
z/OS Connect 3.0.91 is now available with enhanced versions of the z/OS Connect API toolkit, the z/OS Connect Gradle plug-ins, IBM z/OS Connect Operator and the z/OS Connect CASE package bundle file ...

Running the z/OS Connect Designer on zCX

By Andrew Smithson posted 30 days ago
z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) provides the ability to run Linux based containers alongside your existing z/OS Workload. When developing APIs using the z/OS Connect Designer being close to the test systems ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.90 now available

By Shruthi Krishnan posted Tue February 25, 2025
z/OS Connect 3.0.90 now available z/OS Connect 3.0.90 is now available with enhanced versions of the z/OS Connect API toolkit, IBM z/OS Connect Operator and the z/OS Connect CASE package bundle ...

APIs for managing OpenAPI 3 APIs

By Andrew Smithson posted Wed January 29, 2025
IBM z/OS Connect feature zosConnect-3.0, (OpenAPI 3 specification APIs) uses WAR files to deploy APIs. Unlike previous z/OS Connect API’s, we can now utilise the functionality provided by the Liberty server ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.89 is now available

By Kate Bittles posted Fri January 24, 2025
z/OS Connect 3.0.89 is now available with enhanced versions of the z/OS Connect API provider and the z/OS Connect API requester Gradle plug-ins and an upgrade to the version of Liberty that is embedded ...

Using HTTP PATCH in API requester for OpenAPI 3

By Ian Hodges posted Wed January 22, 2025
Since the release of IBM z/OS Connect 3.0.87, support for PATCH in API requester has been made available in Open API 3 specification usage of z/OS Connect. What the HTTP PATCH method allows you to do ...

Making a REST API call from IMS using zOS Connect

By Ian Hodges posted Wed January 22, 2025
From an IMS batch or transactional application , calls can be made to retrieve or update JSON data maintained by an OpenAPI 3 described REST API. Using COBOL or PL/I data structures , IMS application ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.88 now with support for CICS Liberty JVM Server

By Kate Bittles posted Tue December 17, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.88 is now available with support for z/OS Connect to run within a CICS Liberty JVM Server for OpenAPI 3 APIs (zosConnect-3.0), upgrades to the z/OS Connect Gradle plug-ins, support for ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.87 now supports additionalProperties and the PATCH method

By Kate Bittles posted Fri November 22, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.8 7 is now available with additionalProperties and PATCH for API requester request and response schemas, support for z/OS Java 21 plus, upgrades to the z/OS Connect Gradle plug-ins ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.86 now available

By Kate Bittles posted Tue October 22, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.8 6 is now available with updates to the API requester access token caching, IMS Ping, improved content for Building APIs with Gradle, a new version of Liberty and a new version of ...

IBM z/OS Connect 3.0.85 now available

By Kate Bittles posted Tue September 24, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.8 5 is now available with an upgrade to the API provider plug-in to version 1.4.5 and API requester plug-in to version 1.1.7. There are maintenance fixe s in addition to some updates ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.84 now supports policy for OpenAPI3 specification API requests

By Kate Bittles posted Fri August 23, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.8 4 is now available with policy now available for API requests based on an OpenAPI3 specification. There is an upgrade to the API requester plug-in to version 1.1.6 and there are ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.83 now available

By Kate Bittles posted Fri July 26, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.83 is now available with enhancements to the documentation for configuring and securing connections to Db2 and IMS systems and how to obtain access tokens from an authentication server ...

z/OS Connect v3.0.82 is now available

By Will Meyerink posted Tue June 25, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.82 is now available with Payload compression and HostAPI support for IMS in addition to maintenance fixes for z/OS Connect OpenAPI2 and OpenAPI3. For more information, see PH61452: ...

z/OS Connect v3.0.81 is now available with PassTicket authentication for IMS and Db2, Java 11 and Java 17 support and a new version of Liberty (24.0.0.3)

By Kate Bittles posted Wed May 29, 2024
z/OS Connect 3.0.81 is now available with PassTicket authentication for IMS and Db2, support for Java 11 and Java 17 and a new version of Liberty in addition to maintenance fixes for z/OS Connect OpenAPI2 ...

z/OS Connect API images are now supported on IBM z/OS Container Platform

By Kate Bittles posted Mon April 22, 2024
IBM z/OS Connect support is now available with IBM z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP) providing containerized z/OS UNIX System Services applications to z/OS. As a z/OS Connect customer, the new IBM zOSCP ...

z/OS Connect v3.0.80 is now available with z/OS/s390x support with IBM z/OS Container Platform

By Kate Bittles posted Mon April 22, 2024
We have released IBM z/OS Connect 3.0.80. The z/OS Connect server image is now supported on z/OS/s390x with IBM z/OS Container Platform and there are updates to the IBM z/OS Connect Operator and CASE package, ...

z/OS Connect v3.0.79 is now available

By Kate Bittles posted Fri March 22, 2024
We have released V3.0.79 of IBM z/OS Connect with updates to the API provider Gradle plug-in, the API requester Gradle plug-in and maintenance fixes in z/OS Connect OpenAPI2 and OpenAPI3. For more information, ...

z/OS Connect v3.0.78 is now available with PL/I support for generating z/OS Assets for API requesters and API provider API First

By Kate Bittles posted Wed February 21, 2024
We have released V3.0.78 of IBM z/OS Connect with a new programmatic choice for developers creating OpenAPI 3 API requesters and API provider API First. Since IBM z/OS Connect v3.0.65, developers have ...

z/OS Connect 3.0.77 now available

By Kate Bittles posted Fri January 26, 2024
We have released V3.0.77 of IBM z/OS Connect with updates to the API requester Gradle plug-in and the IBM z/OS Connect built toolkit. Plus maintenance fixes for both z/OS Connect OpenAPI 2 and z/OS Connect ...