RE: iSeries (V5R3) calling a CICS program

Mike, 

Sorry if I missed a previous reply but have you checked into APPC? I'm pretty 
sure you would already own all the pieces for that on both sides without 
spending any more money and it works well with COBOL.

-Marty

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date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:21:52 -0400
from: msmith6@xxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: RE: iSeries (V5R3) calling a CICS program

Well actually we are running z/OS 1.4.  It's not that the mainframe OS 
is that out of date, it's just the main appliations are COBOL and 
VSAM.  I just wanted to point out that it wasn't a DB2 instance.

We do have a SOAP/XML web service that presents this service but I'm 
not real happy with it.  I didn't set it up but it seems incrediably 
clunky and doesn't perform real well.  It seems converting a COBOL 
copy book to an XML schema and vice versa is something short of 
voodoo.  They (the programmers) are using Websphere Dev. Toolkit and 
the like.  It seems that they are having some difficulties when 
converting.

Getting back to an earlier response about response time.  I believe it 
has to be a reasonable interactive response.  I think 4 or 5 second 
and below.   I believe the end users only go on this screen once when 
creating a new customer so the delay, I believe, would be acceptable.

I saw an earlier post when someone mentioned DDM.  I think SMS on the 
Mainframe hadles DDM connections.  That gets the data there, I just 
have to envoke the program.

Oh, and CICS/400 isn't an option (if they even sell it any more)


Well, I was just wondering if someone had an implementation they were 
using.  I gotta go to Staples to get more Duct tape and paper clips...

Mike.