Calling a Web Service from COBOL - cobol

>>> On 7/6/2007 at 7:54 AM, in message
<1183730057.899373.262530@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
morde1ac<morde1ac> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> My company is currently running IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V3.4.
>
> We are also running SAP. I would like to create a web service in SAP,
> then call it from a COBOL Program.
>
> How do I call a Web Service from a COBOL Program?
>
> Let me know if you need any more information. Any help is greatly
> appreciated!!

Is your client COBOL program running under CICS? My understanding is that
recent versions of CICS TS (for z/OS) have a web services client API (EXEC
CICS) that you can use.

(Being on z/VSE, not z/OS, I am not able to use them, but...)

Frank

>On Jul 6, 11:29 am, "Frank Swarbrick" <Frank.Swarbr...@efirstbank.com> wrote:
>
>
> Is your client COBOL program running under CICS? My understanding is that
> recent versions of CICS TS (for z/OS) have a web services client API (EXEC
> CICS) that you can use.
>
> (Being on z/VSE, not z/OS, I am not able to use them, but...)
>
> Frank


We have both CICS COBOL Programs and Batch JCL Programs. Being able
to call a web service from both would be ideal.

Do you or anybody else have any information or examples of a CICS API
for calling Web Services in COBOL? Is it possible to call from a
batch program?

Thanks Again for helping!