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[deepeshk79]

Hi,

Is there any way to convert my REXX macros or REXX programs to Web Services ? Can we generate a WSDL out of REXX through any tools like RAD etc...

Appeciate if someone can share their experience on this or give me some link or PDF having these details.

Thanks,
Deepesh

[semigeezer]

I doubt that any such tool exists because there is no 'standard' parameter passing syntax. On input, the parameters are parsed by the individual rexx execs and the syntax of the parameters are free form. There is no specific output format either, and no specific output mechanism. Also, there is no standard way of using services like TSO in a Web Service call (though you can find ways to start TSO and run the exec under all within the web server or app server)

You could write a wrapper yourself to invoke the Rexx exec and reformat output to the appropriate XML (assuming you have a means of invoking this wrapper, which is itself not trivial, especially if your execs require TSO), but I don't think a tool to do this automatically would be possible without requiring a strict specification of how the Rexx exec must be written.
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[Cogito-Ergo-Sum]

If you hosted your REXX EXECs as CGI scripts on a LAMP stack (that should be easy with USS), perhaps, it can be done. Of course, the P in LAMP then becomes R.
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