Before you begin

This section describes prerequisites to invoking a Web services for a manually generated IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit operation.

Defining the data and the context for an operation

If you intend to generate the data mappings through the Generate Web Service Access Operation wizard immediately after you create the Web service connector, you must make sure that you define the data and the context of the WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit business operation in the Transaction editor before you create the Web service connector.

For more information on defining the data and the context in the Transaction editor, refer to the sections on defining data and context in the Transaction editor guide.

If you do not intend to create data mappings immediately after you create the Web service connector, you do not need to define the data and the context of the WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit business operation before the Generate Web Service Access Operation wizard is launched.

Setting your WSRR preferences

If you are retrieving the WSDL file from IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), you must first specify the WSRR host address and port number in IBM Rational® Application Developer. For information on setting your WSRR preferences, see the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository section.