During the recent CA Gen Product Roadmap, Su Brude reported our current Development focus on mainframe CICD, and mentioned Web Services Genius from Response Systems, as the only product to provide REST access to CA Gen server transactions.
She is right, of course, from a pure "Product" perspective. However, if we talk about "Solutions" rather than products, the situation is different.
Broadcom Mainframe Services - CA Gen Services Team, has been providing a Java-based
Field-Supported Solution for a while now. This solution, called the
Web API Designer for CA Gen, provides REST services:
- From the simplest (individual services, which propagate the server Import / Export interfaces to REST)
- To the most sophisticated (full Resource-Oriented Web APIs, giving access to multiple CA Gen servers, with extremely flexible coupling between resources/attributes and views), ready-made for external publication and consumption.
With this solution, CA Gen servers can be accessed on all conventional platforms, using EJB or Java Proxy interfaces.
As said, and that's the reason why Su didn't mention it, this is not a Broadcom Mainframe Division
Product, but a
Field-Supported solution, meaning that a separate contract needs to be set up with Broadcom Mainframe Services, and that Support and Maintenance of the solution goes through the Mainframe Services channel, to the CA Gen experts team, not to the normal Support lines.
If you're interested, have a look at the attached Solution Brief, then contact me at your best convenience.