Bidirectional conversion options window
The Bidirectional conversion options window opens when you select the Bidi options button on the XML Converters tab of the Generation options page. The bidirectional conversion options are not available for IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway projects.
Enable Bidi conversion
This checkbox controls whether the bidirectional language conversion is performed at run time. For bidirectional language conversion to take place, this checkbox must be selected for the host data and for at least one of the request and response message. If these conditions are not met, an error message is displayed in the error message area of a wizard. If you select Enable Bidi conversion, all of the conversion attributes listed in the window apply during the conversion process.
Text type
You can select the following bidirectional language text types:
- VISUAL
- LOGICAL
Text orientation
You can select the following text orientation attributes:
- LTR (Left-to-right)
- RTL (Right-to-left)
Symmetric swapping
You can turn Symmetric swapping on or off.
Numeric swapping
You can turn Numeric swapping on or off.
Related tasks
Related references
Bottom-up wizard - Compiled XML conversion
Create New Service Implementation (top-down) wizard
Setting Importer > COBOL preferences
Generation options page
Web Services for CICS page
XML Transformation for CICS page
File, data set, or member selection page
XML to COBOL mapping reference