Redbooks residency:Day 11:Thursday September 13

What a day in terms of legacy technology learning dump. While continuing on this CICS requester as a web service scenario, lets enumerate the new technologies I got exposed to:

1. COBOL requester program ( main entry point) to invoke the web service ( Generated by the web service tooling, but had to learn how to modify some key pieces of code to do error handling and populating the request)
2. Another COBOL program that works with BMS map ( a screen map), that would capture the input for the web service request and output values from Web service.
3. Comm area ( the communication area between these two programs).
4. How to create a JCL ( Job card language to compile and link these two programs)
5. Specify where to place these load libs, so CICS knows how to pick it up.
6. Define and install CICS programs that would reference artifacts created in steps 1 and 2.
7. Define and install CICS transaction, that references 1.
8. Define and install Web service pipeline for the requester

Are we there yet... no not yet, hopefully by End of Day tomorrow, we can get this going, but hey from knowing nothing to something, that feels good.

Quotable Quote:Ability is what you are capable of doing, motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz.