Hello Modica82,

The litteral answer is yes. Now how much effort.
Find out what web service toolkits you have for the other language and platform.
Worst Case --> If not much, so long as you can open a socket and get an http(s)
request/response, most languages at least have routines for this level of
communication. You can use the response stream and parse the DIME message.
IMhO the DIME reader to is easier to code than MIME or MTOM.

Spec for the DIME message is:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/xml_wsspecs/dime/WSDL-Extension-for-DIME.htm

Now is this a one off or what and how much effort.

If you do not need this until later this year, you may find MTOM implementations
appearing. Things should get more stable at that point.

A quick google search with "COBOL web service attachment" give a number of
hits. Add DIME and get nothing. I did see a number of comments (on the google
return) that indicated some Java interoperability. I can tell you that Apache
Axis will handle DIME.

Mike