IBM Enterprise Modernization for System z: Wrap existing COBOL programs as Web Services with IBM Rational Developer for System z

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Create a project to hold the created assets

1. Select Windows > Open Perspective > Other, as shown in Figure 5.
   
   Figure 5. Using the Enterprise Service Tools perspective
   
   
   
   
2. Select Enterprise Service Tools and click OK, as shown in Figure 6.
   
   Figure 6. Selecting the Enterprise Service Tools option
   
   
   
   
3. The Welcome Page should open. if it does not, right-click the blank area of the EST Project Explorer view and select Open Welcome Page, as shown in Figure 7.
   From this page, you can start learning how to use the Enterprise Service Tools. There are links for demos and tutorials.
   
   Figure 7. Enterprise Service Tools welcome page
   
   
   
   
4. Close the Welcome window (Ctrl+F4).
5. To create a CICS Web services Project, select File > New > CICS Web Services Project, as shown in Figure 8.
   
   Figure 8. Creating a CICS Web services Project
   
   
   
   

What you have done so far You have created a Web Services for CICS project. Next, you will import the program LAB3POT into your workspace, because this program is the one that you will invoke via CICS Web Services.

6. Type LAB3_CICS_Services as the project name and click Finish, as shown in Figure 9.
   
   Figure 9. Naming the CICS Web services Project
   
   
   
   
7. This creates an empty project. In the next section, you will import the COBOL source that you need to create the Web Services.

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