Appendix C. CICS Transaction Server Web services 515
C.2.1 CICS Web services assistant
The CICS Web services assistant is a set of batch utilities which can help you to
transform existing CICS applications into Web services and to enable CICS
applications to use Web services provided by external providers. When you use
the Web services assistant for CICS, you do not have to write your own code for
parsing inbound messages and for constructing outbound messages. CICS
maps data between the body of a SOAP message and the application program's
data structure.
The CICS Web services assistant comprises two utility programs:
DFHLS2WS
This program generates a Web service binding file from a language structure.
This utility also generates a Web servic ...
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