TXSeries for Multiplatforms announced the availability of in-bound web services support natively in November, 2009. The feature is provided as a support pac named CN01 (can be downloaded from here,http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1083&uid=swg24024193). CN01 provides support for in-bound SOAP requests to be translated to program invocations in TXSeries. It allows to expose existing or new transactions as web services. There is no requirement for additional products now to be able to perform this function. Prior to this support pac, clients had to use WebSphere Application Server and CICS Transaction Gateway to be able to do this.
With this feature, TXSeries acts as a Web services provider. Transactions written in C or COBOL programming languages can be exposed as Web services. A new tool, CICS WebServices assistant is provided with this SupportPac, which helps to create Web services description language (WSDL) files from the language structure. Various commands are available for using the tool. In addition, RDz (Rational Developer for System z) provides web services assistant tool that can be used to create WSDL files. Refer to RDz documentation for more information on usage and details of applicable options for TXSeries.
Note : The WSDL files created using the Web services assistant tool are compatible with CICS TS (CICS Transaction Server for z/OS). However, TXSeries does not support all the features or options that CICS TS supports.
This SupportPac is supported for use with TXSeries 7.1 Fixpack 1. SupportPac does not work with prior versions of TXSeries.
Some important information about the support pac below,
Ability to expose CICS transactions as Web services. Does not support invocation of other Web services (outbound) from within TXSeries runtime.
Supported only on English language
Supports COMMAREA interface only. Does not support Containers & Channels.
Additional information and details available with following links ,
TXSeries web site -> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/txseries/
Infocenter -> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/txformp/v7r1/index.jsp
Podcast on Enhancing Business Flexibility using WebServices in TXSeries for Multiplatforms V7.1 can be found at the library -> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/txseries/library/
Developer works article : Using and configuring WebServices with TXSeries -> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-txseriesmulti/index.html
Hi ,
ReplyDeleteyou wrote this SupportPac is supporting transaction written in C and COBOL?
could you refer to where you found cobol transaction are supported as a webservices?
regarding to Outbound Webservices I thought implementing it with Axis/c but it doesn't support AIX , any idea here will be appriciate.