What is CICS Web services made of?
CICS supports two distinct web service protocols, the SOAP and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) protocols. These two protocols have distinct characteristics and advantages.
What is CICS used for?
CICS (Customer Information Control System) is middleware that sits between the z/OS IBM mainframe operating system and business applications. As an online transaction processing (OLTP) system, it is used to build customer transaction application programs.
What is a CICS region?
A CICS® region is a named collection of resources that are controlled by CICS as a unit. A CICS resource is any facility or component of a CICS system that is required to perform a task.
What is CICS pipeline?
A PIPELINE resource is used when a CICS® application is in the role of a Web service provider or requester. It provides information about the message handler programs that act on a service request and on the response.
What are Web services examples?
Here are some well-known web services that use markup languages:
- Web template.
- JSON-RPC.
- JSON-WSP.
- Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
- Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL)
- Web Services Flow Language (WSFL)
- Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange)
- XML Interface for Network Services (XINS)
What is Urimap in CICS?
URIMAP definitions for CICS event processing have a USAGE attribute of CLIENT. These URIMAP definitions specify a URL that the HTTP EP adapter uses to emit events to an HTTP 1.1 compliant server that uses HTTP POST. You can choose to pool opened connections to be reused for further event emissions.
How does CI CD work?
A CI/CD pipeline automates your software delivery process. The pipeline builds code, runs tests (CI), and safely deploys a new version of the application (CD). Automated pipelines remove manual errors, provide standardized feedback loops to developers, and enable fast product iterations.
What web services are supported by CICS?
Web services supported by CICS CICS supports two distinct web service protocols, the SOAP and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) protocols. These two protocols have distinct characteristics and advantages. External standards supported by CICS
What is the CICS profile?
The profile is a set of nonproprietary web services specifications, with clarifications and amendments to those specifications, which, taken together, promote interoperability between different implementations of web services. CICS support for web services includes support for web services pipelines that are Java-based and non-Java-based.
Can a CICS application participate in a heterogeneous web services environment?
A CICS application can participate in a heterogeneous web services environment as a service requester, as a service provider, or both. CICS supports the HTTP and IBM® WebSphere® MQ transport protocols.
How do I call a remote SOAP web service from CICS?
SOAP web services support the INVOKE API command in CICS; using this API command requester (or client) mode applications can call remote SOAP web services. JSON does not support the INVOKE command, but JSON client applications can be hosted in CICS through use of the basic WEB API.