Getting started with JSON web services
There are several ways to get started with JSON web services in CICS®. The most appropriate way for you depends on how much you already know and how advanced your plans are for using web services.
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JSON web service. For the equivalent information about z/OS® Connect for CICS 1.0, see Getting started with z/OS Connect for CICS.
JSON web services is a technology for enabling CICS programs as JSON services. These may be RESTful services, or request-response remote-procedure-call style services. The technology is derived from that used for SOAP web services and uses JCL procedures called DFHLS2JS and DFHJS2LS that are used to generate WSBind files. These WSBind files are deployed into CICS as WEBSERVICE resources. The WEBSERVICE resources facilitate automatic conversions between JSON and application binary data formats.
IBM®'s premiere technology for JSON involves a product called z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition, which is broadly compatible with CICS JSON web services, but offers many additional integration options and capabilities.
Here are some starting points for JSON web services in CICS: