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.