
116 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
6.1 Configuration for Web service enablement
This section outlines the steps to enable the CICS system for running Web
service support. In a basic scenario, HTTP protocol is used as the transport
mechanism, although Web service transports are not limited to HTTP. Other
transports such as WMQ or JMS could equally be used as well.
The following steps outline how we set up our CICS system to expose our
sample application as a Web service provider.
6.1.1 Creating the HFS directories
Web service support requires two HFS directories to be created for our
application:
1. A pickup directory
This contains ...