XML Strategies for the CICS Transaction Server Environment

As the use of XML continues to become more prevalent, knowing the options available in the CICS Transaction Server environment become increasingly important.  CICS's Web service support, CICS's TRANSFORM API command, COBOL's PARSE verb, and Java parsers are some of the available options, but each of them are surrounded with many details.  This session is intended to discuss the various XML usage options in the CICS Transaction Server environment, with a focus on using mapping level capabilities for dealing with common XML-related issues such as string handling and occurring item. Use of zAAP processors for offloading some of the XML parsing will also be discussed.

Tracks: Applications Programming, CICS Systems Programming and zNextGen