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This requirement has been evaluated. Looking at current plans, it is not likely that this would be implemented in the next two CICS TS releases, so correspondingly this requirement is being rejected. You have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be considered then.
The requirement is for CICS calling a Web Service out site CICS. We add Web Service Call to existing CICS application. Our shop use both cobol and PL/1 in CICS application. We need both a Cobol and a PL/1 interface to the Web Service. In our solution it has been necessary to add an P/C to the Web Service Name in CICS to distinct between the two. I still see the need for 2 bind files we just would like to pass the language code as a parm on the EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE.
Wouldn't a better option be to just implement the Web Service client in one language (e.g. COBOL), and to link to that client from both COBOL and PL/I?
If we were to implement this requirement, we'd have to limit the generated interfaces to a lowest-common-denominator of compatible data-types across the supported languages: COBOL, PL/I and C/C++. Even something as simple as a String would be complicated: C/C++ tends to use null terminated strings (with an extra character for the terminator), COBOL tends to use space padding, and PL/I can use varying strings. We'd have to pick a single mapping option, and force developers across all languages to use that specific binding, regardless of what they might prefer. I imagine most would see that as a step backwards.
Please can you supply more information about the business requirement. Why is it better to have 1 WSBind, 2 driver programs, and 2 callers (the proposed solution), compared to 1 WSBind, 1 driver program, and 2 callers (the suggested solution using current technology)?