Increased flexibility in data mapping

Data mapping for SOAP and JSON web services supports UTF-16 data and more COBOL clauses, including OCCURS DEPENDING ON. With this support, you can represent a larger range of characters in web services application data and the TRANSFORM API.

In the CICS® data transformation service for SOAP and JSON web services and the TRANSFORM API, Unicode characters are transformed to UTF-16 data in COBOL, C, C++ and PL/I. Unicode is the widely adopted standard for handling most of the characters in use today and can be used as a basis for the internationalization and localization of CICS applications.

This release of CICS also supports the COBOL clause OCCURS DEPENDING ON, when the field is last in the structure, and the clause OCCURS INDEXED BY.

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For more information about options for data mapping with CICS, see High-level language and XML schema mapping and High-level language and JSON schema mapping.