It is recommended that you useWebSphere® Developer
for System z® or
the CICS Web services assistant as the strategic method for parsing modeled
requests. This approach provides XML parsing and generation for both the request
header and body.
The CICS Web services assistant is described in detail in the CICS
Web Services Guide and can be found in the CICS TS 3.1 Information
Center on the Internet at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts31/index.jsp. For information on using the tooling to perform
XML processing, see the WebSphere Developer
for System
z help
that is provided with the tool.
For backwards compatibility, CICS® Service Flow Runtime provides an internal XML parsing function, which is a nonstrategic capability.
XML request and response support consists of two main functions:
XML location | Supported Yes or No? |
---|---|
In the message header and in the application data | Yes |
In the application data only | Yes |
In the message header only | No |
For more information on the structure requirements of the request message, see Request message headers.
See XML message formats for non-passthrough for samples of XML message formats for non passthrough requests.