Does IMS support Web services?

RDBMS from IBM and IBM's Hierarchical DBMS and Transaction Manager (IMS DC).
Post Reply
Technocrat
Registered Member
Posts: 31
Joined: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:32 pm

Does IMS support Web services?

Post by Technocrat »

Hi,

Does IMS supports Web Services. I could find that CICS supports Web Service but could not found for IMS. Can someone please tell me.
Regards
enrico-sorichetti
Global Moderator
Global Moderator
Posts: 825
Joined: Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:57 pm

Re: Does IMS support IMS services?

Post by enrico-sorichetti »

You could have found out Yourself by googling with "ims web services"
which returned about 650000 hits, - one of which reported
IMS Enterprise Suite V3.1 - SOAP Gateway - Web service provider ...
https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... myxu54NEHq
SOAP Gateway enables IMS™ applications as web service providers that receive inbound requests from external client applications. ... The following figure shows the SOAP Gateway runtime environment when IMS applications are enabled as web service providers and receive inbound ...
now You should be able to proceed by Yourself
cheers
enrico
When I tell somebody to RTFM or STFW I usually have the page open in another tab/window of my browser,
so that I am sure that the information requested can be reached with a very small effort 8-)
Technocrat
Registered Member
Posts: 31
Joined: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:32 pm

Re: Does IMS support Web services?

Post by Technocrat »

Thanks Enrico. In one of the meetings a question was raised why IMS DC is not used in our system? Actually we use IMS as database while the online system is CICS. One of the senior said that there is a possibility that they wanted to use Web-services when they took decision long back to use online system. Back then possibly IMS didn't support Web-services while CICS did. But searching all over I could not find out if web-services were supported by IMS first or by CICS?
Regards
enrico-sorichetti
Global Moderator
Global Moderator
Posts: 825
Joined: Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:57 pm

Re: Does IMS support Web services?

Post by enrico-sorichetti »

the decision to use IBM/DC rather than CICS does not usually depend on small details like that one
and more probably the decision was taken loong time before anybody knew about the term WEB services
cheers
enrico
When I tell somebody to RTFM or STFW I usually have the page open in another tab/window of my browser,
so that I am sure that the information requested can be reached with a very small effort 8-)
Technocrat
Registered Member
Posts: 31
Joined: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:32 pm

Re: Does IMS support Web services?

Post by Technocrat »

Thanks enrico, you might be correct.
Regards
Post Reply

Create an account or sign in to join the discussion

You need to be a member in order to post a reply

Create an account

Not a member? register to join our community
Members can start their own topics & subscribe to topics
It’s free and only takes a minute

Register

Sign in

Return to “IBM DB2 and IMS DB/DC”