How to...This chapter describes the Interface Mapping Toolkit as it applies to extending CICS and IMS applications.
Note: The Interface Mapping Toolkit is also documented in your online help for use in extending other types of COBOL applications. See Interface Mapping Toolkit for details.
The Interface Mapping Toolkit enables you to create service interfaces. The main elements in the Toolkit as it applies to CICS and IMS applications are:
A tree view showing service types such as Web services, Java, and .NET and services you have created, screens you have made available for creating service interfaces and workflows you have captured
A wizard that enables you to add screens to your service interfaces group and to update changed screens already included in your service interfaces group.
This feature enables you to capture the flow of an application as you interact with it, providing a starting point for a service interface.
A wizard in which you specify the basic properties of a new service interface - its name and its type (Web service, Java, or .NET).
A graphical drag-and-drop editor where you define what and how data is passed to and from the application.
A tool to copy service files to the location from which the service runs.
A tool that, depending on the type of service, generates one or more of the following:
Net Express presents service interfaces in groups. Each group corresponds to a service interfaces (.mpr) file. You can create a service interfaces group to store any number of service interfaces regardless of the application they access. Service interfaces groups are not necessarily tied to a specific Net Express project. However, if you create a service interfaces group while you have a project open, Net Express names the service interfaces file projectname.mpr where projectname is the name of the current Net Express project, and stores the file in the same directory as the current Net Express project. If you create a service interfaces group with no project open, Net Express prompts you to name the group and specifiy a location for it. You create a service interfaces group when you create a service interface if a group is not already open.
The Service Interfaces window shows one service interfaces group at a time. From there, you have access to all of the other tools in the Interface Mapping Toolkit. This window presents the components of the group in a tree view. The high-level components in the tree view are:
When you create a service interface, it appears automatically under the heading for its type. Each service entry shows its operations in the tree view as well. The Screens heading shows you the screens you've added to the group and provides access to them. Similarly, the Workflows heading shows and provides access to the workflows you have added to the group for use in creating service interfaces.
From the Service Interfaces window, you can:
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