IMS database Web services

IMS™ database Web services is an extension to the DLIModel utility plug-in that provides a simplified way to expose IMS data as a Web service. You can use the DLIModel utility to generate an IMS application by using a standard IMS DL/I call that identifies the data you want to expose and deploy the generated IMS application to WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS® as an industry standard callable Web service.

Inline assistance helps you define IMS database Web services in an XML configuration file. A single build generates two artifacts:

• An Enterprise Archive (EAR): The generated IMS application that can interpret a SOAP input message, issue the defined DL/I call, and format the IMS result as standard XML to be returned in the SOAP output.
• A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file: The WSDL file contains all the information needed by any consumer of the Web service, without any IMS knowledge, to set up, call, and interpret the results of your IMS database Web service in an industry standard way.

Requirement: To use the IMS database Web services extension, you must use the DLIModel utility plug-in version 2.0.2 with APAR PK73190 or the IMS Enterprise Suite DLIModel utility plug-in.