API economy solution adoption kit

In the API economy, application programming interfaces (APIs) are the digital glue that links services, applications, and systems. The API economy solution adoption kit provides the information to guide you through the process to integrate your IMS assets into the overall API solution.

You can enable IMS applications as REST services and define REST APIs for these services for IMS assets to be part of the API economy. z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition (z/OS Connect EE) V2.0 provides a REST endpoint for mainframe assets, and the IMS service provider that is included in z/OS Connect EE V2.0.5 (APAR PI70432) and later provides API access to IMS.

Important: The information and implementation workflow provided in this kit is based on z/OS Connect EE Version 2.0, where IMS services are created by using IMS Explorer, and REST APIs are created by using z/OS Connect EE API Editor. In z/OS Connect EE V3.0, service creation and API creation functions are consolidated into the new z/OS Connect EE API toolkit.