title: Calling web services from Mainframe batch programs
body: <p>We are currently looking at doing a partial migration away from a Main Frame.</p>
  
  <p>Some of the functionality written in Mainframe Cobol is called from Mainframe Batch programs.</p>
  
  <p>We would like to move these cobol programs off the mainframe. </p>
  
  <p>If for example we moved the functionality in the cobol programme to a Java or .Net web service. Is the a way to call this web service from a Mainframe batch programme?</p>