By Nigel Williams, Rocket SoftwareIn January 2021, Fix Pack 2 (FP2) for IBM Z OMEGAMON for JVM, V5.5.0 was released in PTF UJ04755. This fix pack introduces the highly anticipated support for z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (EE) API requesters. Also known as “outbound” APIs this z/OS Connect EE feature allows z/OS native applications written in languages such as COBOL and PL/1 for CICS, IMS or batch to be able to call RESTful APIs. It accomplishes this using a simple, callable stub module (BAQCSTUB) without having to implement all the REST API services, JSON parsers and so forth. z/OS Connect EE transforms the z/OS application request parameters into JSON and makes the API request on behalf of the application. The endpoint API returns a response in JSON which z/OS Connect EE then transforms into a native format to be returned to the application.