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In this blog we explore how changing OpenApi 3 document schemas and Gradle Plugin properties affect how the COBOL language structures are produced by the Gradle Plugins. The tooling does not give us a free hand as there are language constraints to consider, but we can make our language structures more consumable and easier to program with. We will take a simple OpenApi 3 API document and generate an API Requester, what we talk about here holds equally true for API Providers API First as both are generated starting with the OpenApi3 document. We will make changes to the API description and the options.yaml properties to see how these affect the language ...
Today, progressive companies are exposing their mainframe applications as APIs. Many are using z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (z/OS Connect EE) to enable natural REST APIs for IBM Z applications and data. z/OS Connect EE provides: A single REST API entry point to IBM subsystems like CICS and IMS An integrated REST API Toolkit for creating and deploying APIs without coding Discovery of APIs based on the OpenAPI standard But how do you identify the programs to expose as APIs? How do you find the copybook structures that define the interface for these programs. And how do you know which programs have already been exposed as APIs? Let’s ...