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API Integration with mainframe Applications in Blue prism

sajin1991 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:09:58 GMT

Hi Team,

Can some one please help me to know whether we can use API integration in Mainframe applications.
If yes , can you please help me with some documentations or any video links to have an understanding.
Thanks.

Re: API Integration with mainframe Applications in Blue prism

zdenek.kabatek — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:11:25 GMT

Hi, sajin1991,

first you need to know API for Mainframe application. Do you have any documentation describing API of your Mainframe application?

I am not aware of any API for Mainframe but I may be wrong, however, you can automate Mainframe without API if you use Blue Prism supported Mainframe client. The automation is pretty straightforward.

Regards

Zdenek

Re: API Integration with mainframe Applications in Blue prism

sajin1991 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:14:22 GMT

Thank you @zdenek.kabatek for the response.

Im unsure about the documentation.

I just need to know whether is there any possibility that we can use API in Mainframe as we do Web APIs.

Thanks

Re: API Integration with mainframe Applications in Blue prism

naveed_raza — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:50:30 GMT

you can check with your mainframe team , they might have some APIs , and if they have APIs exposed then instead of scraping mainframe application , directly you can call mainframe APIs.

inside mainframe means.. after mainframe open, you want to call any APIs, if yes then that might not possible i think, instead you can record the mainframe steps and call that macro file inside mainframe