Changes to the application programming interface (General CICS Web support enhancements)

New and changed commands

There are new EXEC CICS WEB commands for CICS® as an HTTP client. Also, some commands have been modified for CICS as an HTTP client, but are unchanged for CICS as an HTTP server. The new and changed client commands are described in Changes to the application programming interface (HTTP client requests).

The EXEC CICS WEB SEND and EXEC CICS WEB RECEIVE commands are enhanced for HTTP/1.1 support when used by CICS as an HTTP server, and are described in Changes to the application programming interface (HTTP/1.1 support).

The following new EXEC CICS commands can be used for both CICS as an HTTP server, and CICS as an HTTP client:
  • EXEC CICS WEB PARSE URL
  • EXEC CICS CONVERTTIME
The following EXEC CICS commands have been modified for both CICS as an HTTP server, and CICS as an HTTP client:
  • EXEC CICS WEB EXTRACT
  • EXEC CICS FORMATTIME