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cics-java-liberty-restapp sample

This sample is the same as the existing JCICS cics-java-liberty-restapp sample, but updated to use JCICSX instead of JCICS to show the similarities and differences.

Sample RESTful web application for deployment to a Liberty JVM server in CICS. The application is supplied with two resources:

  1. InfoResource - This queries the JVM server environment using system properties and uses JAXB beans to return a JSON response detailing the CICS environment.
  2. ReverseResource - This is similar to InfoResource, but uses the JCICSX API to link to the COBOL program EDUCHAN using channels and containers. An input string is passed to EDUCHAN, which is then reversed and returned, along with the time from CICS.

The following Java source components are supplied in the src/main/java directory in this repository.

Java package com.ibm.cicsdev.restapp

Java package com.ibm.cicsdev.restapp.bean

  • CICSEnvironment - JAXB bean returning JSON structure containing information about CICS product and version
  • CICSInformation - JAXB bean returning JSON structure containing CICS applid, time and JVM server name and instance of CICSEnvironment
  • ReverseResult - JAXB bean returning JSON structure containg input and output containers sent to EDUCHAN COBOL program

Supporting files

  • EDUCHAN.cbl - A sample CICS COBOL that returns the date and time and reversed input using channels and containers. Download and compile the supplied COBOL program EDUCHAN and deploy into CICS.

Pre-reqs

  • CICS TS V5.6 or later
  • Java SE 1.8 or later on the workstation

Setup

This application links to the COBOL program EDUCHAN, which can be found in src/main/cobol.
Download and compile the supplied COBOL program EDUCHAN and deploy into CICS.

This sample is a Maven project, which uses the CICS Bundle Maven plugin to package the web application in a CICS bundle and deploy this to CICS. This requires the CICS bundle deployment API to be enabled in CICS as a prerequisite. Alternatively, if you aren't using Maven, you could use Gradle or take the source from this project and use one of the other methods of deploying the application to CICS such as creating a CICS bundle project in CICS Explorer and adding the source as a dynamic web project include.

To run the sample as-is, fill out values in the configuration block in pom.xml

<configuration>
  <defaultjvmserver>DFHWLP</defaultjvmserver>
  <url>http://yourcicsurl.com:9080</url>
  <username>${cics-user-id}</username>
  <password>${cics-password}</password>
  <bunddef>DEMOBUNDLE</bunddef>
  <csdgroup>BAR</csdgroup>
  <cicsplex>CICSEX56</cicsplex>
  <region>IYCWEMW2</region>
</configuration>

Running mvn clean install will package the web application into a CICS Bundle and install and enable it. You can then view the web server http://yourcicsurl.com:9080/cics-java-liberty-restapp-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/

Using a web browser you can issue the following HTTP GET requests

This will invoke the InfoResource class and return the following JSON response with information about the target CICS system:

{"applid":"IYK2Z32E","jvmServer":"DFHWLP","time":"2016-09-09T16:19:55.384Z","cicsEnvironment":{"cicsProduct":"CICS Transaction Server for z/OS","cicsVersion":"5.3.0"}}

This will invoke the ReverseResource class which links to the CICS COBOL program and reverses the default string "Hello from Java" returning the following JSON response:

{"time":"2016-09-09T16:15:52.756Z","original":"Hello from Java","reverse":"avaJ morf olleH","truncated":false}

This will invoke the ReverseResource class which links to the CICS COBOL program reversing the input string "ilovecics" as follows:

{"time":"2016-09-09T16:15:32.466Z","original":"ilovecics","reverse":"scicevoli","truncated":false}