Explained: z/OS Connect

A mobile banking app developer needs to display a customer's account summary. The data lives in a CICS COBOL program that has run the bank's core logic for thirty years. The developer knows REST and JSON. She has never heard of CICS, has no idea what a commarea is, and has no intention of learning. She needs an endpoint she can call with a standard HTTP GET request and get back JSON. The CICS web services approach covered in the previous … Read More