The CICS® catalog
example application is a working COBOL application that is designed to illustrate
best practice when connecting CICS applications to external clients and
servers using Web services for CICS, and using Web service modules generated
by Enterprise Service Tools.
The example is constructed around a simple sales catalog and order processing
application, in which the end user can perform these functions:
- List the items in a catalog.
- Inquire on individual items in the catalog.(inquireSingle)
- Order items from the catalog.
The catalog is implemented as a VSAM file.
Installation of the base catalog manager application is covered in the CICS 3.1
Transaction Server documentation. A Web client front end is provided with
the catalog manager application. Configuration of the Web client is also described
in the CICS 3.1
Transaction Server documentation. The Web client calls multiple Web Services
that are provided by the base catalog example application after it has been
enabled for Web services.