Limitation: Support for DBCS data members with SOAP for CICS and Web Services for CICS

Support for DBCS data items in Enterprise Service Tools single-service projects requires that the request and response XML documents are encoded in UTF-16 or UTF-8. If the target runtime of the Web service is SOAP for CICS®, configure the feature to exchange XML in UTF-8 or UTF-16 with the XML Converter Driver. The Web Services for CICS runtime will exchange XML in UTF-8 with a client by default while the XML Converter Driver exchanges XML with CICS in UTF-16; when UNICODE is needed, UTF-16 is the most efficient choice currently for the XML Converters. For either runtime, it might be necessary to configure z/OS® support for UNICODE with a conversion image that supports conversion between UNICODE and the DBCS host codepage.