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CICS Web Service Provider (Bottom-Up, Request-Response)

Attention: This feature is in Early Adopter Product (EAP) release status. We intend to provide the finalized feature in a future release. Please contact Micro Focus SupportLine if you require further clarification.

The CICS Web Services feature is EAP for development and testing usage. It should not be used for production deployment in this product release.

Important: As a prerequisite to using the CICS Web Services feature, you must first install the IBM CCSID Conversion Tables and configure accordingly. See CCSID Conversion Tables for more information.

Page 1, New CICS JSON Web Service

Project: Shows the name of the project in which the CICS Web service is created. The default is the current project. Click Browse to specify a different project.
Program location: The location of the program from which to create the Web service. Click Browse to select a location.
Program name: The name of the program from which to create the Web service.
Service location: The endpoint URL used to invoke the Web service, consisting of the server, port, and a URI used to identify the Web service in Enterprise Server.
Program interface: Lists the types of interfaces you can select for this Web service: COMMAREA or CHANNEL.
Container name: Shows the name of the container associated with the selected interface. The default name for the COMMAREA interface is DFHWS-DATA, which cannot be changed. For a CHANNEL interface, this field is enabled so you can type in the name of the container.

Page 2, Interface Mapping and Output Artifacts

Request structure: The path or virtual path to and name of a program or copybook that contains the data structures required to request data. Click Browse to select a file.
Response structure: The path or virtual path to and name of a program or copybook that contains the data structures required to send data. Click Browse to select a file.
JSON request: The name of the JSON schema file that contains the input data area. Click Browse to select a folder and/or schema file.
JSON response: The name of the JSON schema file that contains the output data area. Click Browse to select a folder and/or schema file.
WSBIND file: The fully qualified name of the Web service bind file. Click Browse to select a folder and/or WSBIND file.
Additional parameters: Any additional parameters. See the ls2js reference topic for a list of parameters.