Expose a CICS application as a Web service provider or construct a Web service requester. Generates COBOL data structures, a skeleton COBOL program, and a Web service bind (WSBIND) file from a Web service description file (WSDL).
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.
Syntax:
ws2ls pgmname=program-name
wsdl=wsdl-file
wsbind=bind-file
[reqmem=request-prefix]
[respmem=response-prefix]
[pgmint={channel|commarea}]
[uri=address]
[contid=container-name]
[default-char-maxlength=max-length]
[inline-maxoccurs-limit=max-occurs]
[ccsid=ccsid]
[synconreturn={yes|no}]
ws2ls -help
Parameters:
- pgmname=program-name
- The fully qualified file name to use for the generated skeleton CICS program. Depending on other supplied parameters, this skeleton program is generated either to invoke a Web service (requester), or to be exposed as a Web service (provider).
- wsdl=wsdl-file
- The fully qualified name of the WSDL file that contains the Web service description.
- wsbind=bind-file
- The fully qualified name of the Web service bind file.
- reqmem=request-prefix
- Specifies a one- to six-character prefix used in naming copybook files generated for requester Web services. A unique two-digit number is appended to this prefix to produce uniquely named copybook files. Each generated copybook file contains the request data structures for one operation defined in the given WSDL file.
- respmem=response-prefix
- Specifies a one- to six-character prefix used in naming copybook files generated for provider Web services. A unique two-digit number is appended to this prefix to produce the copybook file name. The generated copybook file contains the Web service response data structures.
- pgmint={channel|commarea}
-
- channel
- Create a service provider that passes data to the target application program via a channel container.
Note: Do not specify the
pgmint parameter when constructing a Web service requestor.
- commarea
- Create a service provider that passes data to the target application program via a commarea.
Note: Do not specify the
pgmint parameter when constructing a Web service requestor.
- uri=address
- For Web service providers, specifies the relative URI used by a to access the Web service. For Web service requesters, specifies an absolute URI used in the EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE call within the generated skeleton program. When a URI is not supplied for a requestor Web service, the EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE call uses the service end point address found in the WSDL file.
- contid=container-name
- The name of the container that holds the top-level data structure used to represent a SOAP message. When not specified, this defaults to
DFHWS-DATA. Used only when generating a Web service provider.
- default-char-maxlength=max-length
- The default string size to use for unbounded strings when none is specified in the WSDL file.
- inline-maxoccurs-limit=max-occurs
- The default array size to use for unbounded arrays; this indicates whether inline variable repeating content is used.
- ccsid=ccsid
- The CCSID used at runtime to encode character data into the application data structure.
- synconreturn={yes|no}
-
- yes
- The remote service can issue a sync point.
- no
- The remote service cannot issue a sync point.
- -help
- Displays information about
ws2ls parameters.
Examples:
- Example 1
- The following command uses the
mywsdl.wsdl WSDL file to create the
program.cbl skeleton COBOL program and the
mywsbind.wsbind Web service bind file:
ws2ls wsdl=mywsdl.wsdl
pgmname=program.cbl
wsbind=mywsbind.wsbind
pgmint=channel
reqmem=REQ
respmem=RESP
- Example 2
- The following command uses the
mywsdl.wsdl WSDL file and the /mysvc/operation URI to create the
mywsbind.wsbind Web service bind file, appropriate request and response copybook files, and the
program.cbl skeleton COBOL program, which uses a Commarea interface to receive requests and return responses:
ws2ls wsdl=mywsdl.wsdl
pgmname=program.cbl
wsbind=mywsbind.wsbind
reqmem=REQ
respmem=RESP
uri=/mysvc/operation
pgmint=commarea