XML Converters tab

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The XML Converters tab allows you to specify identification attributes and character encodings.

This tab contains the following fields:

  • In the Specify identification attributes group:

    Converter program name prefix
    Type the stem of the program name that is included in the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION of each generated COBOL program. If you type ACCT, for example, the wizard identifies the input converter program as ACCTI, the output converter program as ACCTO, and the driver as ACCTD.
    Author name
    Type the value to be included in the AUTHOR paragraph of each generated COBOL program.
    Service program name
    Type the name of the existing application that you want the Web service to invoke.

  • In the Specify character encodings group:

    Request code page
    Select the code page for encoding the XML input message.
    Note:
    • In the Web Services for CICS® runtime environment, when compiled conversion is selected, CICS performs the conversion of the text between the code page used by the Web service client and the code page used by the Web service.
    • In the other runtime environments, when compiled conversion is used, the Web service client is responsible for the conversion between its own code page and the code page used by the Web service.
    Host code page
    Select the code page for the z/OS® host system.
    Response code page
    Select the code page for encoding the XML output message. For One-way this is disabled.
    Note:
    • In the Web Services for CICS runtime environment, when compiled conversion is selected, CICS performs the conversion of the text between the code page used by the Web service client and the code page used by the Web service.
    • In the other runtime environments, when compiled conversion is used, the Web service client is responsible for the conversion between its own code page and the code page used by the Web service.
    Bidi Options
    Use the Bidi options button to invoke the Bidi conversion options window.
    Note that the Bidi options button is disabled for Host code page selections other than 420 Arabic or 424 Hebrew. It becomes enabled if you select Host code page 420 Arabic or 424 Hebrew.
    Based on the selection of a bidirectional language specific code page for the host application (420 Arabic or 424 Hebrew), you can choose any combination of the allowed attributes that describes what type of transformation will be performed on the text data to convert it from the Unicode-based (1208 UTF-8 or 1200 UTF-16) XML data to the 420 Arabic or 424 Hebrew text (alphanumeric and alphabetic) data items in COBOL or, inversely, from the COBOL text data items to XML data in Unicode.
    For a description of the bidirectional language options see Bidirectional conversion options window.