Creating your own XML-aware web service applications

If you decide not to use the CICS-supplied data mappings, you can write your own XML-aware data applications in two ways instead. You can either use the XML-ONLY parameter on DFHWS2LS or you can write your own application without using any of the tooling. Using the XML-ONLY parameter is the most straightforward way to configure the CICS® pipeline process to pass the XML data to the application to be handled.

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Writing your own XML-aware applications involves writing code to both parse and generate XML documents. One way to write your own XML-aware application uses the XML PARSE and XML GENERATE statements in COBOL. Another way to write your own XML-aware applications uses other IBM tools; for example, you can use the IBM® Developer for Z for tool to generate COBOL XML converter programs that can be invoked from your applications.