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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 27, 2013

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Webservices assistant program DFHWS2LS translates DATETIME fields to packed

DFHWS2LS, the CICS Webservices assistant program, starting at CICS 4.1 and later allowed the customer to provide a DATETIME format.    The default is PACKED15 so that the value is mapped to the CICS ABSTIME format.    When upgrading, the customers DATETIME XML fields were being translated into packed fields rather than character fields as before.  <br /><br />The customer would like the default for DATETIME to be character.    She would also like to see the DATETIME value to handle the multiple datetime versions that are available in the distributed environment.    The only WebServices they use are between the mainframe and the distributed platforms (not mainframe CICS to mainframe CICS).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 5, 2015

    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

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2013

    Closing as the customer's issue has been resolved.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2013

    Closing as the customer's issue has been resolved.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 17, 2013

    Hi,
    Thank you for your update. I've forwarded the information to the customer and will update with their feedback.

    The customer was setting up new WebServices when migrating to CICS 4.2 which must have required the need to run DFHWS2LS. With mapping-level of 3.0, we changed the xsd:datetime format returned to that of the CICS ASKTIME format:

    http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.applicationprogramming.doc/datamapping/dfhws_hllxml_limitations.html


    Re-running DFHWS2LS with DATETIME=STRING resolved the customer's issue.
    Thank you,
    Debbie McLaughlin
    CICS Level 2

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 28, 2013

    The XML specification requires that timestamps be serialized using ISO 8601 format. It's not possible for an xsd:dateTime to be in any format other than ISO 8601, so we don't understand why client side data representations are relevant. It doesn't matter what the client is, the data will always be in ISO 8601 format on the wire.


    Is the customer aware of the EXEC CICS FORMATTIME command? It can be used to convert an ABSTIME field in to almost any representation that's desired.

    Is the customer aware of the DATETIME=STRING parameter on DFHWS2LS? If that's used, DFHWS2LS doesn't attempt to map xsd:dateTime fields into ABSTIME at all.

    The combination of one or both of the above technique ought to be sufficient to address everything that's being asked for in the requirement.



    Lastly, why is the customer regenerating COBOL Web Service bindings as part of a CICS migration?  That shouldn't be necessary! The old CICS mapping levels are still supported, so older Web Service programs will continue to work unchanged. DFHWS2LS continues to support every mapping level since Web Services were first introduced.

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