1.5.5 SOAP Outbound (Mainframe Invoking An External Web Service)

The wsdlcvt command is used to generate COBOL copybook from WSDL/schema. Outbound services are invoked using RECORD payloads and are automatically detected and converted using GWWS.

You can invoke wsdlcvt using the -C argument to generate MIF with RECORD type definitions, WSDF, XSD, RECORD files and COBOL copybook source files.

wsdlcvt has the -D option to specify a string length to use when xsd:string types are not constrained by size. Otherwise the default for strings is 256(PIC X(256)).

The generated MIF entry servicetype is set to "sna".

Figure 1-4 SOAP Outbound (Mainframe Invoking An External Web Service)