Approach

IBM's i 6.1 and higher provides a Web Services Server.

IBM states, "The Web services server provides a convenient way to externalize existing programs running i OS®, such as RPG and COBOL programs, as Web services."

The IBM Web Administration Interface provides a web-based, wizard like approach to creating and deploying a Web Service that can invoke an RPG ILE or COBOL ILE program.

The CA 2E support reduces the reliance on the Web Administration Interface Web Services wizard, with a programmatic invocation of the IBM shipped scripts which perform the pertinent Web Service administration tasks:

Install a Web Service (i.e. automatically create and deploy).
Uninstall a Web Service

Install and uninstall Web Service administration tasks are available as new 2E commands.

Additionally, a CA 2E user can model Web Services within a 2E model enabling 2E facilities such as impact analysis to be applied to web services.