Call From Cobol Program on OS 390

Don Ferguson <[email protected]> writes:
What does IBM offer in this space? I guess its possible to envisage
calling an EJB from a COBOL program over IIOP, but no-one has tried
it. If this is how IBM does it then it should work with us also under 6.1
andy
Roman wrote:
Hi .
Try to WLS6 and WTC -- weblogic tuxedo connector and Elink 4 for connectivity
between OS390 CICS and Tuxedo.
IBM Websphere offers more as for EJB - OS390 system. But Weblogic is better
J2EE server (global view), in my opinion.
Roman
"Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd suggest CORBA (2.3 or later).
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol, Inc.
http://www.tangosol.com
+1.617.623.5782
WebLogic Consulting Available
"Marc Lenart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3a8956f2$[email protected]..
Can you steer me in the right direction as to how I can call a sessionbean from a
cobol program on the OS390 platform? An example wouyld be helpful.Thank
You!

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Thanks for this pointer. I downloaded the code and looked at the same. It very useful as conceptual and coding guidance. However, there are many BAPis working in our product already, only a few return the same error "Deserialisation failed" The sample you pointed out uses BAPI_FLTRIP_CREATE but we have problem with the following BAPIs:
BAPI_TRIP_CREATE_FROM_DATA
BAPI_ADDRESSEMP_CREATE
BAPI_FAMILY_CREATE
All of them give error similar to following:
Deserialisation failed
<detail>
    <n0:SimpleTransformationFault xmlns:n0="http://www.sap.com/transformation-templates">
                <MainName>/1BCDWB/WSS0071212021944898000</MainName>
                <ProgName>/1BCDWB/WSS0071212021944898000</ProgName>
                <Line>170 </Line>
                <Valid>X</Valid>
                <ReferenceFault>
                                <DescriptionText>Error accessing the ref. node 'EMPLOYEENUMBER'</DescriptionText>
                                <RefName>EMPLOYEENUMBER</RefName>
                </ReferenceFault>
                <Caller>
                                <Class>CL_SRG_RFC_PROXY_CONTEXT</Class>
                                <Method>IF_SXML_PART~DECODE</Method><Positions>1 </Positions>
                </Caller>
   </n0:SimpleTransformationFault>
</detail>
Any more suggestions are most welcome and highly appreciated.

BAPI calling from a non SAP system.

Dear Experts,
I would like to know how can I call a BAPI from a non SAP system, a breif idea/with example ( from any non SAP system ) and sample coding will be highly appreciated.
Thanks, Sudeep..

Hi,
there are couple of possibilities. For example you can export your BAPI as a web service and then use standard tools for web services. There are also libraries to allow RFC calls from different programming languages. You can see all possibilities such as SAP Java connector supported by SAP on https://service.sap.com/connectors. There are also additional libraries not supported by SAP such as SAPRFC extension module for PHP. As you can see there are so many ways how to call RFC enabled FM. You can find examples for each method here on SCN.
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