This page gives guidance on the Installation and Execution of the CICS/ESA CWI MANIPC converter program. This program is a sample which will take data passed on by the CWI analyzer program, extract part of the data and pass it on to a CICS application program after adding more data.
To use the INTROC sample you need to upload MANIPC.COB to your MVS or OS/390 system and follow the instructions below.
These instructions explain how to use a sample COBOL program that will take a request from a browser to run a CICS application, manipulate the request and pass it on to the application program. No changes to the sample CWI analyzer program DFHWBAOX are required provided the request is in the form of http://your.cics.system/manipc/cwba/pgmname where pgmname is the CICS program to be executed.
The CICS program could process the data it receives or simply perform an EXEC CICS RETURN, in which case the converter passes the data it constructed on DECODE through ENCODE and on to the browser where a short message is displayed.
This is just one example of manipulating data in a COBOL converter. MANIPC will use some of the data it receives from the browser to construct an HTML page and pass it on to the CICS application program named in the URL. The same page will be passed to the browser, provided the CICS program doesn't change it.
If all the above works correctly you should now be able to point your favourite web browser at the following URL: http://your.CICS.system/manipc/cwba/pgmname and you will receive a message, informing you the program has been executed, at the browser.