z/OS Connect Designer
z/OS Connect Designer is delivered as a container image with the following capabilities:
- Web user interface that provides a no code approach to allow APIs to be created in minutes. z/OS Connect Designer is delivered as a stand alone container image, ready to run in Red Hat OpenShift, alongside IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, to deliver a cloud native experience for creating and managing end-to-end flows.
- OpenAPI 3 support to provide enterprises with the confidence that the APIs being built will meet company and industry standards. This support allows OpenAPI 3 interfaces to be created for all z/OS assets that are supported by z/OS Connect.
- API first functional mapping to create an API first process that puts the API specification at the heart of a project. This capability allows the transformation of native Z data and services into schema designs to meet clients' business demands.
z/OS Connect Server
z/OS Connect Server is delivered as a container image with the following capabilities:
- Decentralized ownership of API integrations is achieved by using the containerized z/OS Connect Server and its provided Kubernetes operator. This decentralized ownership enables teams to work in parallel. Developers have the freedom to build and deploy APIs in isolation and system administrators maintain control through the use of a container orchestration platform.
- Enhanced role-based security model to provide more control to security administrators. This security model takes advantage of the improved security schemes provided by the OpenAPI 3 specification, to deliver more granular control of user authorization at the API operation level.
- Access to metrics and near real-time statistics to provide to third-party tooling, such as Prometheus, to track usage data, such as how many times an API operation is called or how long those calls take.
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