CICS pipelines and SOAP

The pipeline which CICS® uses to process Web service requests and responses is generic, in that there are few restrictions on what processing can be performed in each message handler. However, many Web service applications use SOAP messages, and any processing of those messages should comply with the SOAP specification. Therefore, CICS provides special SOAP message handler programs that can help you to configure your pipeline as a SOAP node.

The SOAP message handlers, and their header handling routines are specified in the pipeline configuration file.