- In Visual Studio, create or open an Enterprise Server Application project that contains a WSDL file that describes a COBOL
application.
- In the Solution Explorer, right-click the WSDL file; then select
Generate Web Service from the context menu.
On the Generate Web Service dialog box, the selected WSDL file appears in the
From field.
- Optionally, select an alternative WSDL file from the
From drop-down list.
- On the Generate Web Service dialog box, optionally specify alternative
WSDL Service,
WSDL Port, and/or
Operation(s) values using their respective drop-down lists.
- In the
Generate group, select the
Service radio button.
- Optionally, provide an alternative service name in the
Name field under the
Service radio button.
- In the
Program group
Name field, optionally provide an alternative program name for the generated skeleton COBOL program.
- Optionally, provide an
Inline array size limit to generate separate structures for mappings of variable arrays in the generated service. For more information, see
Handling Variable Arrays in WSDL and JSON - Native COBOL.
- Optionally, specify an alternative
Default string length and/or
Default array size for the service.
Note: The
Character Set and
Bit Mode options apply to client generation only and are therefore grayed out. Web service generation uses ASCII 32-bit by default.
- Click
OK.
Enterprise Developer generates and adds a skeleton COBOL program and a service interface (.svi) file to the current project in a folder with the same name as the specified program name.
- Right-click the
.svi file; then select
Generate WSBIND from the context menu.
Enterprise Developer generates a
.wsbind file and adds it to the current project in a folder with the same name as the specified program name.
Tip: For a description of each field and control on the Generate Web Service dialog box, see the
Generate Web Service dialog box - Native COBOL reference topic.