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.
- In Visual Studio, create or open a Mainframe Subsystem project that contains a CICS application that includes a main CICS COBOL program and request and response JSON schema files that contain input and output data structures respectively.
- In the Solution Explorer, Ctrl-click to select both JSON files.
- Right-click a selected file; then select
Generate Web Service from the context menu.
Note: On the Generate Web Service dialog box, when using a RESTful JSON file, this file appears in the
(For request) field, and the
(For response) field is set to
<None>. When using both request and response JSON files, these appear in the
(For request) and
(For response) fields respectively.
- If necessary, change the values in the
(For request) and
(For response) fields using their respective drop-down lists.
- Select the
Client radio button.
- Check
CICS.
- In the
Program group
Name field, optionally provide an alternative program name for the generated client program.
- Optionally, provide a maximum
Inline array size limit to enable container mappings in the generated client. You can also specify the
Default string length and
Default array size for the client.
- Optionally specify a
CCSID.
- Click
OK.
Note: You are not required to select a type because CWS client applications use the
Channel type by default, and use the default
DFHWS-DATA
Container name. These are automatically set for you.
Enterprise Developer creates a new project that contains the generated CICS application. The new project name is the specified program name plus
CICSClientApp.
Tip: For a description of each field and control on the Generate Web Service dialog box, see the
Generate Web Service dialog box reference topic.
