What’s New and Future Enhancements with GDT

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada Topics to Cover  GDT n Calling WEB SERVICES l M WS l See Demonstration of TPR call a Web Service to validate a zip code entered You can’t miss this one! n GDT PDF file creator n Please let us know if you are interested in any of these enhancements!

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada Calling Web Services  Application Modernization! n Solution that provides the unique approach of blending new technologies such as Web services with existing COBOL application core business functions. n Enabling an evolutionary path to application extension and transformation. n Dramatically reducing project risk, cost and time.

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada Calling Web Services  Prerequisite: GDT V5.0  On the mainframe n Is never directly attached to the internet for security reasons n To make a connection between the GCOS and the WWW you always need to setup one or multiple gateways that are connected to the WWW. n Physically this can reside on the same machine by using several partitions (ports). n These gateways have IP address and associated names. n On these gateways you configure a service for EACH web- service that you want to use. (SERVICES file) n The communications will be handled thru unique PORTS and associated names (need to be specified then in the SERVICES file). By configuring the gateway(s) they know how to execute the appropriate web-service.

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada M WS  M WS n We do not make use of Gateways under GDT but we do need to provide / emulate the same functionality for the underlying API’s to HooX. This emulation is done through the Master Command M WS n Master Command that can be entered at the Ready prompt under TDS. n Menu driven system that allows you to create and maintain Gateways that can be accessed via your programs.

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada M WS

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada GDT WebService Review and Maintenance

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada GDT WebService Review and Maintenance F2 option (Gateway Review and Maintenance) This screen will list available Web Services.

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada GDT WebService Review and Maintenance Enter M on the Web Service you want to Modify Other options: V to view and D to delete.

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada GDT WebService Review and Maintenance The Web Service Maintenance Form Name or IP Addr. of the Gateway Name or the Port used for communication to the Gateway Where the web service can be executed

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada CRG – CReate Gateway

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada VWG – VieW Gateway

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada M WS  Summary n M WS creates the Web Service Description l Key information  The Gateway name (hostname or ip address)  The Web Service name l Detail information  The URL for the Web Service n A TPR will use Application Program Interface calls to access and use the Web Service (examples..) l CALL “WS-CONNECT” - (passing the Gateway name and Web Service name to access the internal GDT Web Service Description File and obtain the URL necessary to connect to the Web Service.  MOVE “ValidateZip” to method-name l CALL “WS-SET-REQUEST” using the Service name and Method name to set the request l CALL “WS-INVOKE” to invoke the method

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada Calling Web Services Via a TPR THE DEMONSTRATION

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada GDT PDF file creator  The Need n Many businesses require special formatted reports such as PDF n A variety of tools to do PDF conversions may be available but would work outside of the GDT Environment n Customers need to have PDF documents created on-demand as well as real time via Batch processing

Doug Evans GDT 2007 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy July 29 – August 1  Lake Las Vegas, Nevada How will CREATE_PDF work?  GDT PDF can be run as a standalone.exe  In GDT V5.0, GDTBATCH will be enhanced with a new command CREATE_PDF abbreviated to CPDF. This command can then be used in JCL.  In GDT V5.0, CPDF will be made available to COBOL programs by supplying a call interface that makes use of the DLL entries.  Additional functionality will include Fonts, CharPerLine and a GUI  CMD line entry: n GDTPDF1 PDF-TEST.lsq PDF-TEST.pdf

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