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.
Components of the Reverse, InvokeReverse, and LoanDemo applications are provided for these tutorials.
- Reverse Application
- The Reverse application is a CICS COBOL application that takes one or more character strings as input, reverses each of them, and sends the reversed strings as output.
- InvokeReverse Application
- The InvokeReverse application is generated from an existing WSDL file. With it, you invoke the Reverse application running in an
enterprise server region.
- LoanDemo Application
- LoanDemo consists of a CICS application, LOANPAYM, that simply accepts a Principal amount, a Loan Term amount, and a Rate amount. These three input values are required to calculate and return a Monthly Payment amount.
Demonstration Files
The demonstration files are provided by means of a project template named
CICSWebServicesProjectTemplate_VS. This template is available from
Micro Focus
SupportLine. Contact
SupportLine to obtain your copy.
Projects created using the template contain several folders and files required to complete the tutorials; however not all of the files are used in every tutorial:
- CWSProject.cblproj
- A Visual Studio project file used as a template to create a solution and all projects.
- cbl\LOANPAYM.cbl
- A CICS COBOL program used to create a CICS Web service provider using the bottom-up method.
- cpy\LOANIN.cpy
- A copybook that contains the input structure for the LOANPAYM program.
- cpy\LOANOUT.cpy
- A copybook that contains the output structure for the LOANPAYM program.
- cpy\revLogic.cpy
- A copybook that contains the business logic for the generated Web service.
- ESTemplates\CICSWebServicesTemplate.xml
- An
Enterprise Server template used to create an
enterprise server region on which to run CICS Web services.
- loadlib
- Initially empty, this folder is created and configured to contain generated
build
files generated by
Enterprise Developer.
- system\dfhdrdat
- A resource definition file that defines the resources required to run the Web service on
Enterprise Server.
- wsdl\reverse.wsdl
- A Web Service Description Language file that describes a CICS Web service.
- xml\basicsoap11provider.xml
- A basic SOAP configuration file used for the provider pipeline.
- xml\basicsoap11requester.xml
- A basic SOAP configuration file used for the requester pipeline.
Project Configuration
Projects created using the provided template are configured to use the following settings. All other settings remain set to their respective defaults:
- Output path
- This is set to write generated
build
files to the
loadlib project folder.
Note: Generated Web service files are written to the
program-name project folder when using the top-down method, and the
service-name project folder when using the bottom-up method.
- Project dependencies
- Includes all folders in the project, ensuring that the compiler finds all required components.
- Preprocessor
- Set to build the project using the CICS preprocessor.
- Character set
- Set to use the ASCII character set.
- Dialect
- Set to use the
Micro Focus COBOL dialect.
- Mode
- Sets the mode to word-storage by setting the IBMCOMP compiler directive.
