With Db2 for z/OS customers expanding their business presence into the mobile client world, solution developers are seeking more efficient ways to leverage existing data and business logic to support this. The REST native API is designed to assist with this.
The topic for the IDUG Content Committee for February 2018 is “RESTful”. in this short article we’ll say a little about what REST is and how it has been possible to provide RESTful support for data in Db2 long before the product had functionality built in.