Create services

These tasks show you how to quickly get started with creating, deploying, and testing IBM® z/OS® Connect services by using supplied samples.

A service archive (.sar) file contains the information that is needed by a IBM z/OS Connect service provider to install and provide the service, and to enable the service as a JSON asset. A service archive is also required to build APIs in the IBM z/OS Connect API toolkit.

In some of the sample scenarios, you can use the Swagger UI to test the service because these scenarios supply the API which calls the service, so the server is created using a sample template that includes services and an API. The scenarios delete the service and recreate it as a demonstration of how the service was initially created. Therefore the newly recreated service is being tested by calling the supplied API. In a typical development environment where services are created before the API, the API toolkit cannot be used to test the service. In this case, a REST client, such as postman, is required.