Calling a SOAP service from z/OS batch job?

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Need some ideas here.

Old system which created a flat file for us to retrieve is switching to Java. They are going to make the same information available as a SOAP service.

The information is probably less than 4,000 bytes total.

My question is, how do I call a SOAP service from a z/OS batch job?

-My research has shown that it's possible with the OMVS command cURL. I'm working on getting that enabled right now.

-We have the IMS SOAP Gateway installed, but it needs IMS TM, and indicates that it would NOT work with 'TM Batch'. I don't know if that's the same thing as BMP

-We use Control-M for mainframe scheduling and Control-M Enterprise for server side scheduling.

-We have the IBM suite of tools, such as FileManager and DFSort

Obstacles are time needed to get a BMP transaction set up at current site(especially just for a proof of concept), and security concerns for enabling cURL.

Does anyone here have practical experience calling a SOAP service from a z/OS batch job?

superk · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:05 pm

In a previous position I was doing SOAP calls from TSO/E REXX execs using the TCP/IP Socket Services. They worked quite well at the time.

agkshirsagar · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:45 pm

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

update...

I got a really kick a$$ solution together using the rexx socket commands. I will post it later. It works perfectly. I can post the SOAP request and get the response back, then parse the response as needed to get the data.

Since our request/reply is so small, I can do it all in memory.

I'm exploring the cURL option now so that our security folks can evaluate the approaches for safety's sake.