You can use this workspace to determine the status of the various aspects of the connectivity between your CICS regions and your Web services (software systems designed to support interoperable, machine-to-machine interaction over a network). With Web services, your CICS applications can communicate with heterogeneous Web applications as a Web services requester, a Web services provider, or both. If you are experiencing problems integrating your CICS applications with other business applications using the Worldwide Web, use this workspace to quickly verify that all the Web service components are defined and available.
The predefined Web Services Analysis workspace contains the following table views:
If the latest version of the ITCAM for SOA product is also installed and running, you can link to its Performance Summary workspace, that is filtered by the Web Service name and Operation attributes. With this feature, you can track a transaction's activity as it moves between CICS and ITCAM for SOA.
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