Preferences and options for COBOL XML converters

This group of topics describes preferences and options for COBOL XML converters.

Setting preferences for COBOL XML converters
To set preferences for COBOL XML converters, open the COBOL XML Converters page in the Enterprise Service Tools preferences.
Options for handling illegal XML characters
The response XML conversion program generated by Enterprise Service Tools attempts to patch up data in response language structures so that a valid XML message can be produced.
Initializing data items in the COBOL application's input data structure
This topic describes two initialization options that are available when you generate a Web service in a single-service project using both the bottom-up method and compiled XML conversion.
Including COBOL source code comments in generated XSD and WSDL files
This topic describes an option that enables you to add the comments from a COBOL source code file to the XSD and WSDL files that are created when you generate a Web service using the bottom-up method and using compiled XML conversion in a single-service project.
Whitespace conversion behavior for COBOL XML converters
This topic describes the capability of the Enterprise Service Tools component to generate XML schemas and language-structure-to-XML converters that implement standards-compliant whitespace processing.
Use of namespaces
This topic describes how namespaces are used in request converters and response converters.
COBOL/XML Mapping migration tool
Mapping migration tool gives you the capability to migrate older mapping session files (of type .cmx) to the new format that was introduced in Version 7.

Parent topic: Working with the runtime language-XML conversion programs