Support for DBCS data items in Enterprise Service Tools
single-service projects requires that the request and response XML
documents are encoded in UTF-16 or UTF-8. If the target runtime of
the Web service is SOAP for CICS®,
configure the feature to exchange XML in UTF-8 or UTF-16 with the
XML Converter Driver. The Web Services for CICS runtime will exchange XML in UTF-8 with
a client by default while the XML Converter Driver exchanges XML with CICS in UTF-16; when UNICODE is
needed, UTF-16 is the most efficient choice currently for the XML
Converters. For either runtime, it might be necessary to configure z/OS® support for UNICODE with a
conversion image that supports conversion between UNICODE and the
DBCS host codepage.