Jan, the interesting part is, what protocol the "jboss" application is offering. As a starting point I recommend some books on distributed computing, for instance Andrew Tanenbaum is sort of well known. Also a good source of information should be "z/OS V1R12.0 Comm Svr: IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference", Document Number: SC31-8788-09. I am not familiar with PLI but I expect LE to offer some neat tricks to call C functions from PLI. Talking about Java, you might be interested in for example 'http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/' and especially distributed programming in Java, RMI-IIOP: 'http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/additional/rmi-iiop6.html'. May be that "jboss" application is communicating with HTTP -- from my experiences quite common for web servers. Then, did you consider just using a HTTP client like WGET? Have a look into 'http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-porting_os/index.html'. Please see your local Windows administrator how to ensure the protocol with AT/TLS on top. At least from a z/OS perspective this should not be a problem. Or use cURL as Paul mentioned. See APAR OA22944. Again, writing your own HTTP client is not hard work - even in PLI this should work. You can even just use telnet, see wikipedia article on HTTP for a picture. Cheers Michael
Von: Jan Vanbrabant <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Datum: 2011-06-24 21:18 Betreff: Re: HOWTO invoke Web Services from a batch program? Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> *** cross-posted in IBM-MAIN & CICS-L *** Hi Lizette & co, Some more details. *What services is the batch web service job to do?* Currently the z/OS cics web services developped in place are called by "jboss java programs", running on a windows server. We would like to call them know in batch from a z/os job. *Is it going to talk to CICS?* If possible without any CICS. They should be available even if the CICS is down. *What products do you have ? MQ/Websphere? HTTP Server?* There is no MQS, no HTTP servers. *What language will be used? C, JAVA, Unix functions, COBOL?* PL/I *What functions are needed?* All possible functions. I'll look into the suggested URLs. Thank you all so far! Jan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
