DEFINE PIPELINE

Defines information about the handler programs that are invoked to process web service request and response messages.
Keyword Description
Pipeline(name) Name of the Pipeline record. Can be up to eight characters in length. Acceptable characters are A through Z, 0 through 9, $, @ and #.
Group(groupname) Names the group the pipeline definition belongs to. Mandatory. groupname can be up to eight characters in length. Acceptable characters are A through Z, 0 through 9, $, @ and #. Do not specify a group name starting with DFH, as Mainframe Subsystem Support (MSS) uses that prefix for system groups.
Description(text) Describes the pipeline. Optional. text can be up to 60 characters in length, with no restrictions except that if you use a left parenthesis you must ensure that there is a matching right parenthesis.
Configfile(string) Path to a file that contains information on the processing done for a service request and response.
STatus(ENABLED|DISABLED) Indicates whether or not the pipeline can process Web Service requests after installation.
Wsdir(string) Full path to the web service binding directory. This must be unique for each pipeline.
Respwait(DEFT|value) Number of seconds that an application program should wait for a response. Specify DEFT to use the default timeout of the transport protocol.

Example

DEFINE PIPELINE(SAMPPIPE) GROUP(SAMPGRP)
DESCRIPTION(Sample SOAP PIPELINE)
       STATUS(ENABLED) RESPWAIT(DEFT)
       CONFIGFILE($SAMPDIR/pipelines/soaprequester.xml)
       WSDIR($SAMPDIR/webservices/wsbind/requester)