Installing WEBSERVICE resource definitions

Although CICS® provides the usual resource definition mechanisms for creating WEBSERVICE resources, and installing them in your CICS region, there is an alternative strategy which you can use. You can use the scanning mechanism to install WEBSERVICE resources in your running CICS system.

• Use the PERFORM PIPELINE SCAN command (using the CEMT transaction, or the system programming interface) to initiate a scan of the pickup directory for a PIPELINE resource.
  Use this method when you have added or updated a Web service binding file in the pickup directory of a PIPELINE that is already been installed. CICS scans the pickup directory and uses each Web service binding file that it finds there to dynamically install a WEBSERVICE resource.
• Install a PIPELINE resource.
  Use this method when the pickup directory of a PIPELINE resource contains a Web service binding file that you want to associate with the PIPELINE, and the PIPELINE has not been installed. When you install the PIPELINE, CICS scans the pickup directory and uses each Web service binding file that it finds there to install a WEBSERVICE resource.
• Install a WEBSERVICE resource from the CSD.
  Use this method if neither of the two other methods is appropriate - for example, when you want to use a PIPELINE definition with a Web service binding file that is not in the PIPELINE's pickup directory.