How CICS complies with WS-I Basic Profile 1.1

CICS conditionally complies with WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 in that it adheres to all the MUST level requirements. However, CICS does not specifically implement support for UDDI registries, and therefore the points relating to this in the specification are ignored. Also the Web services assistant jobs and associated runtime environment are not fully compliant with this Profile, as there are limitations in the support of mapping certain schema elements.

See High level language and XML schema mapping for a list of unsupported schema elements.

Conformance targets identify what artifacts (e.g. SOAP message, WSDL description) or parties (e.g. SOAP processor, end user) that the requirements apply to. The conformance targets supported by CICS are:
MESSAGE
Protocol elements that transport the ENVELOPE (e.g. SOAP over HTTP messages).
ENVELOPE
The serialization of the soap:Envelope element and its content.
DESCRIPTION
The description of types, messages, interfaces and their protocol and data format bindings, and network access points associated with Web services (e.g. WSDL descriptions).
INSTANCE
Software that implements a wsdl:port.
CONSUMER
Software that invokes an INSTANCE.
SENDER
Software that generates a message according to the protocol associated with it
RECEIVER
Software that consumes a message according to the protocol associated with it.