Generating an IMS SOAP Gateway Web service requester

Summary

To generate a Web service requester to support the IMS SOAP Gateway Callout feature:

1. Create a new IMS SOAP Gateway project.
2. Ensure that you have the following required files in the project:
   • The Web service description (WSDL) of the service you want to invoke
   • The COBOL copybook to hold the request and response data
3. Create request and response mappings for the callout scenario.
4. Generate a Callout XML converter.
5. Copy the XML converter to the remote system for compiling and link-editing.

Help topics

The following help topics provide more information about generating an IMS SOAP Gateway Web service requester:

• Overview of the IMS SOAP Gateway
• Enabling an application for the IMS SOAP Gateway
• IMS SOAP Gateway project
• Starting the XML to COBOL Mapping wizard (response mapping)
• Starting the XML to COBOL Mapping wizard (request mapping)
• Generating Web services files
• Copying remote files