The Web Services Consumer transformation is an active transformation. It performs any function that a web service operation performs. For example, Web Services Consumer transformations can check credit ratings, verify address syntax, send Short Message Service (SMS) messages about workflow status to a cell phone, and handle currency conversion during a PowerCenter session.

You create Web Services Consumer transformations from web service operations. You import a web service operation from a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file. The Designer imports the request and response elements of the WSDL file.

You can use a WSDL with either a SOAP 1.1 binding or a SOAP 1.2 binding.

Web Services Consumer transformations contain one or more groups and one or more ports. The structure of the transformation depends on how you want to process the operation imported from the WSDL file.

The Designer creates primary and foreign keys to indicate the relationships between groups.

Use the following methods to create a Web Services Consumer transformation: