The Web service binding file

The Web service binding file contains information that CICS® uses to map data between input and output messages, and application data structures.

A Web service description contains abstract representations of the input and output messages used by the service. When a service provider or service requester application executes, CICS needs information about how the contents of the messages maps to the data structures used by the application. This information is held in a Web service binding file.

Web service binding files are created:

At run time, CICS uses information in the Web service binding file to perform the mapping between application data structures and SOAP messages. Web service binding files are defined to CICS in the WSBIND attribute of the WEBSERVICE resource.