You can expose existing CICS® applications as web services and create new CICS applications to act as web service providers or requesters.
The CICS web services assistant can create a WSDL document from a simple language structure or a language structure from an existing WSDL document; it supports COBOL, C/C++, and PL/I. It also generates information that is used to enable automatic runtime conversion of the SOAP messages to containers and COMMAREAs, and vice versa. This information is used by the CICS web services support during pipeline processing.
Create your web service, as described below, and validate that it works correctly: