Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
You can generate a full COBOL client console application starting from a WSDL or JSON file that was generated using the Interface Mapping Toolkit (IMTK), or created using some other method. You can deploy the client application to
Enterprise Server. The generated application files consist of the following, where by default,
filename is the file prefix of the WSDL or JSON file:
- filename-app.cbl
- Main COBOL program
- filename-proxy.cbl
- Proxy COBOL program called by the main COBOL program
- filename-copy.cpy
- Copybook containing working storage definitions
Visual COBOL adds these generated files as a new project in the current solution. The new project name is the same as the WSDL or JSON file prefix.
Generate a Client Application from a Service Interface File
You can generate clients from WSDL or JSON files that are part of a service interface.
- Clients from WSDL
- The WSDL file must be part of a REST Web Services service interface.
- Clients from JSON
- The JSON file must be part of a SOAP Web Services service interface.
Note: Before generating a client, you can optionally change the default string length to use for unbounded strings and the default array size to use for unbounded arrays. The preset defaults are:
| Default string length:
|
256
|
| Default array size:
|
256
|
See
To set client generation properties for instructions.
Generate from the Command Line
Generation from the command line is fully documented in the
imtkmake command,
ls2ws command and
ws2ls command topics.
