Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-02 Thread Scott Barry
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:12:41 -0600, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: Anyone out there have mainframe batch programs that consume distributed web services? What are you using? Java? EXCI and CICS web service client? Vendor product? Something else? Thanks, Frank -- Frank

Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-01 Thread Etienne Thijsse
Frank, I am currently working on such a product: Uniface 9. When finished, it will be able to call out to web services, and expose web services to the world. But its not finished yet... Etienne On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:12:41 -0600, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: Anyone

Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-01 Thread Chuck Arney
Frank, our z/Ware 2.0 product can be used to do this with a simple program call to our batch API. The batch programmer does not need to know anything about Web Services, XML or even TCP/IP. CICS is also supported. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com

Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-01 Thread Rozeboom, Kay [DAS]
Web Services for IDMS from Formula Opensoft. The request goes through IDMS, which is a pre-requisite. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
You can do it in batch with Java and JZOS (and free). There is an example in the JZOS Cookbook which uses the Apache Axis2 framework. The JZOS Cookbook can be downloaded from the JZOS alphaWorks site: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
Frank, You can consume web services in Java batch job with JZOS (free / included in the IBM Java SDK), but you would probably want a web services client implementation in the language of the rest of your batch application. There is an example in the JZOS Cookbook which uses the Apache Axis2

Re: mainframe batch consumer of web service

2010-09-01 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Might be an interesting way to get our Java z/OS feet wet. I'm thinking we might have an OO COBOL program for the business part of the application call Java for the web services access. Could be fun! :-) Thanks, Frank On 9/1/2010 at 12:56 PM, in message