CICS Web Services Known Issues and Restrictions

CWS does not support CICS applications that use both COMP and COMP-5 items. By default, the mapping module generate COMP-5 SYNC items rather than COMP. CWS supports CICS applications that use COMP declarations when the ES_CWS_WSBIND_COMP environment variable is set to Y.

CICS Web services in Enterprise Developer supports the COBOL programming language exclusively.

Features that are not supported by CICS Web services in Enterprise Developer include but are not limited to the following:

Web Services security
Web Services addressing
MTOM/XOP optimization of binary data
Web Services Atomic Transactions
Pipeline exits
xsd:any
xsd:anytype
base64Binary type
Nillable attribute
Run-time validation

CICS Web Services (Known Issues)