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CICS Web Services

Note: This is a technology preview feature only. It is being made available to allow you to test and provide feedback on this new capability; however, this feature is not intended for production use and it is not supported as such. Furthermore, Micro Focus does not guarantee that this feature will be delivered at a GA level and if it is, then the functionality provided might differ considerably from this technology preview.

Enterprise Developer CICS Web Services support enables you to create service interfaces, Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) files, Web service providers, and Web service requesters. You can create any of these from the Enterprise Developer IDE using the New CICS Web Service wizard, or you can run the ls2ws and ws2ls commands from an Enterprise Developer command prompt.

All CICS Web services exchange data using either the COMMAREA or CHANNEL interface. Enterprise Developer supports both of these methods.

CICS Web services supports both HTTP and MQ transport protocols.

You can host your generated CICS Web services on Enterprise Server.