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uthaman · Beginner Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Topics: 9

I am creating a CICS web service that contains variably repeating content. Basically some data that occurs 1 to 500 times. I found this document that explains how to do this:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.cics.ts.webservices.doc%2Freference%2FSchemaToHLL%2Fdfhws_cobolvariable.html

Now my question is can I do variable content within variable content? I have tried various methods to do this and am not getting good results! Has anyone seen or done this before?

Thank You!

kolusu · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:18 am Post subject:

uthaman,

Unless I am mistaken , isn't it a simple case of using a PERFORM statement to capture whatever you are looking for?

Kolusu

uthaman · Beginner Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Topics: 9

What I have is a copybook like this:
01 ws-return-info.
05 ws-return-code pic x(2).
05 ws-table occurs 500 times.
10 ws-name pic x(60).
10 ws-location-table occurs 50 times.
15 ws-loc-address pic x(60).

When I create the WSDL from this definition, and then process it back into a cobol format I end up with something like this:

01 ws-data.
05 ws-return-code pic x(2).
05 ws-return-count pic s9(9) comp-5.
05 ws-return-container pic x(16).

01 ws-table.
05 ws-name pic x(60).
05 ws-table-num pic s9(9) comp-5.
05 ws-table-containter pic x(16).

01 ws-location-table.
05 ws-loc-address pic x(60).

ws-return-container points at a container name that contains 0 to 500 WS-TABLE entries. You build that by reading thru a file and building a very large PIC X field. I have:
01 ws-ret-container pic x(600000).

That all works until I introduce the ws-location-table. I am trying to create an unique container name for each ws-table to plug into ws-table-container. But, it seems to be ignored by CICS.

Sorry, I am probably not explaining this very well. I am rather new to doing this myself!

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:47 am Post subject:

there are 50 ws-loc-address's per ws-name

you are processing an inner loop 50 times per ws-name outer loop?
or are you?
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uthaman · Beginner Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 14 Topics: 9

Yes. There are 1 to 50 location addresses possible for each name. And, 0 to 500 names are possible.

So, for the web service I am not sure how to reference a second container from within a variable number of "parent" containers...