Appendix A. XMLSERV – Interactive XML Prototyping Tool

XMLSERV is a host application that runs under ISPF on z/OS mainframes. It provides an interactive user interface to SERXMLBC, the Serena XML batch processing client for

ChangeMan ZMF. (For more information about SERXMLBC, see SERXMLBC – Executing Native XML Service Calls.

Use XMLSERV to perform the following tasks:

• Prototype and test Serena XML requests to ChangeMan ZMF interactively, then validate the XML replies.

• Browse the contents of ChangeMan ZMF master files interactively using Serena XML requests and replies.

Caution

Do not use XMLSERV in ISPF split screen mode. If you use split screen mode with XMLSERV on one screen and ChangeMan ZMF on the other, you may corrupt the system.

Caution

Input and output dataset allocations for XMLSERV have been changed in ZMF 7.1.2 to support long names. Any userid.XMLIN and userid.XMLOUT datasets from

ZMF 7.1.1 or earlier must be deleted before running XMLSERV for ZMF 7.1.2 or later.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• XMLSERV - Functional Overview

• Sample XMLSERV Session