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We have assessed this requirement. We have no current plans for this to be implemented and so this requirement is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
This is a candidate for a future release.
Greetings,
The additional support requested is to align the JSON and XML Restful offerings. With REST and XML, we use the WEB and TRANSFORM commands. This is the only option.
With JSON and REST, we have the request/reply interface and the Restful interface. XML and REST have neither of these options available.
For XML in a request/reply model, I understand this is very similiar to SOAP. We do have a significant number of applications that do use the request/reply model with XML that are not SOAP.
Ideally, a container application could be bound as both XML and JSON regardless of the interface chosen. We do have the transform option available where the CICS application would be responsilble for issuing E.C. WEB commands. The RFE is asking for REST/XML to have the same options as REST/JSON. The client would be able to use either XML or JSON for the same CICS container application regardless of the interface chosen.
Regards,
Michael Karagines
Please can you clarify as it is not clear what is being requested.
The JSON support in CICS is derived from the SOAP/XML support.CICS has had "pipeline support for XML similar to JSON pipeline" since CICS TS V3.1. And the ability to support "the same business logic" for "both JSON and XML" is already available for bottom-up scenarios. Top-down scenarios are slightly different, some advanced concepts are not shared between JSON and XML, so it might not be possible/convenient to provide both interfaces. But bottom-up support for this has been available for as long as we've supported JSON.