DFHWS-APPHANDLER is a container of DATATYPE(CHAR) that, in a service provider pipeline, is initialized with the contents of the <apphandler> element of the pipeline configuration file.
In the terminal handler of the pipeline, the CICS-supplied SOAP handlers get the name of the target application program from this container.
You can change the contents of this container in your message handlers or header processing programs.
CICS® does not provide this container in a service requester pipeline.