We have some COBOL programs in our financial applications which need to interact with some of our backend systems. One of the available interfaces is through a web service. Can a program written in Cobol make requests to a web service?
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I've never used COBOL but from quick Google search it looks like it's possible.
This looks like it'll help, and talks about integrating webservices with cobol through c code.
PintSizedCat
2008-10-02 15:55:56
Yes - but the problem here is that it doesn't allow Java, ASP, C# etc. which probably constitute the vast majority of web services these days.
nzpcmad
2008-10-28 01:38:26
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Microfocus provide a tool called Enterprise Server which allows COBOL to interact with web services.
If you have a COBOL program A and another COBOL program B and A calls B via the interface section, the tool allows you to expose B's interface section as a web service.
For program A, you then generate a client proxy and A can now call B via a web service.
Of course, because B now has a web service any other type of program (command line, Windows application, Java, ASP etc.) can now also call it.
nzpcmad
2008-10-28 01:22:10
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ibm is now trying to implement a technology called embedded websphere with java. ibm belives this is the only way to give the life to mainframes.
venkatram
2008-11-02 08:35:34
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What platform is this on? IBM's CICS supports webservices invokationnn from cobol program via EXEC CICS INVOKE.
Bartosz Radaczyński
2008-11-27 12:51:35
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I know I can write a WebService with Delphi and call a COBOL DLL or call a Delphi dll to comunicate with webservice.
Right now Im writing a webservice client, it will be a DLL, and Ill call from old COBOL systems.
Cesar Romero
2008-12-10 11:35:31