Building on earlier articles COBOL POSIX Sockets, COBOL SSL Sockets and Consuming an XML service with COBOL, we want to enhance our project to handle multiple requests to the XML service, to better handle some errors and HTTP chunking. Objectives, Handle multiple requests read in from SYSIN. Process the requests over a single connection to… Read More »
Now that we can make HTTP web requests directly from our COBOL program and do this with SSL Security, we should be able to use these skills access a service that returns non-SOAP XML. JSON is preferable these days, however we can leverage the native COBOL parsing support for XML and, as far as I… Read More »
The tooling CICS provides for the building and execution of SOAP Web Services providers makes it a very reasonable way to “modernize” CICS applications that are designed to be invoked via COMMAREA or Channel/Container. But, for 3270 terminal based applications–not so good out of the box. There are third-party software solutions, some of which… Read More »