SOA Testing

Here are a number of pages offering various tests of web services. These have been designed to support the videos and our own testing, and may change or fail from time to time.

User Guide: Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture

Web Service Testing

In this section we develop expertise in using existing web services, starting with a kind of "Hello World" response.  The virtual zOS system should be running for all zOS tests

zOS GetTime   Invoking GetTime from the zOS mainframe in Dallas.

SOA Test1   The same test but using a local web service.

WCF Formats Test   A second web service, to explore various data formats.

zOS Test 2 (WSPG1)   Invoking WSPG1 to read data from a VSAM file (CustF), held on the zOS mainframe in Dallas. 

zOS Test 3 (WSPG2)   Invoking WSPG2 to read and update data from a VSAM file (CustF), held on the zOS mainframe in Dallas.