PL/I top-down development for IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway web services

You can generate a PL/I application template from a web service description language (WSDL) document that describes the operations and messages of a web service by using IBM® Developer for System z®. Then use the PL/I segmentation APIs to add your business logic to the generated application before enabling this application as a web service running on IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway.

IBM Developer for System z has a batch processor that can generate an IMS web service application template in Enterprise PL/I from a WSDL file. The approach is known as the top-down approach, where the application to serve as a web service is generated from a web service description file. The batch processor generates the data structure, XML converters, and PL/I application template file from the WSDL file that describes the web service.