Generating callout web service artifacts

You can generate the callout web service correlator file and the XML converter by using Rational® Developer for System z®. If you do not have Rational Developer for System z, you can use the SOAP Gateway management utility to create the correlator file.

Rational Developer for System z provides two development approaches for artifact generation:

Meet-in-middle: This approach generates the XML converter and the correlator file from the web service WSDL file and the IMS callout application (synchronous or asynchronous, PL/I or COBOL).
Top-down: This approach generates the XML converter, the correlator file, and the COBOL copybook from the web service WSDL file. This feature requires Rational Developer for System z Version 8.5.1 or later. The generated COBOL application contains the data structures that can be used in IMS COBOL synchronous callout applications.