John McKown asks: >Does anybody know of a product which would allow a >COBOL batch program to send a SOAP request to another >server?
Roland Schiradin replies: >1. DB2 Webservice function >2. plain TCP/IP socket calls >3. CICS Exci. I don't generally recommend option #2. It's usually too much work in this era, both now and for ongoing maintenance. And it really doesn't apply here anyway (unless you're truly masochistic), because SOAP generally flows over HTTP(S) or MQ transports. By option #3 I think you (also) mean via SOAP for CICS (CICS Transaction Server V2.2 or 2.3) or CICS Web services (CICS Transaction Server V3.x). This prereqs CICS of course. There are lots of options. Three more that I can think of include: * WebSphere Message Broker * WebSphere Transformation Extender * IMS SOAP Gateway V10.1 or higher (prereqs IMS TM V10 or higher): You can also "roll your own" using Enterprise COBOL and the IBM HTTP Server for z/OS or WebSphere MQ for z/OS, but that's more in the direction of option #2 (i.e. more work than you probably ought to do). If you absolutely insist on this path, it's easier with SOAP over MQ than with SOAP over HTTP -- the coding is simpler because the transport takes care of more. Any version numbers I'm listing above related to technical minimums for outbound SOAP functionality. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
