CICS putting the S in SOA CICS Transaction

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CICS – Putting the S in SOA CICS TS Version 3 summary §Web Services §Fully integrated into CICS, Capable of Inbound and Outbound calls. §A standard architecture internationally accredited and widely supported. §VB and dot net developers and others have no dependency on IBM for interfaces, just use the WS standard! §Web Services security and coordination – Web. Services on CICS can drive or be driven by Web. Sphere Application Server with integrity. §HTTP 1. 1 Persistence – Massive reduction in the overhead of opening and closing HTTP connections, reduced latency, reduced cycles and higher performance. §OTE (Open Transaction Environment) §Higher throughput (saves cycles) §USS Calls or MVS calls from within CICS applications – now possible with OTE §Containers and channels – the alternative method of data transfer §Commarea restrictions eliminated. NO 32 K limit. §Easier to Debug/Develop applications; can be retrofitted to existing applications. §Reduces load –Only requested/changed data gets copied between systems; More data with lower overhead… 2 CICS in a Service Oriented Architecture | www. ibm. com/cics

CICS – Putting the S in SOA CICS TS Version 3 summary §Service Flow Feature §A modern IDE to allow non-CICS skilled personnel to assemble CICS programs and transactions as “parts” to create programs faster with improved reliability and flexibility. §New Sample program provided in COBOL using VSAM (source included), uses WAS, Web. Services and Channels and Containers. . §Customers can modify this sample to use their own programs, – use for education then POC §URIMAP extended so by updating URIMAP, programs can use MQ instead of HTTP without Changing or recompiling the CICS programs. . §Information centre: Improved consistency with other IBM products (similar look and feel with Eclipse based technology) §All the information needed by system programmers and developers instantly available, even extending to support. . §System Management WUI provides a condensed holistic view of large, complex environments. §Progressive movement toward TCP/IP communication environment, reducing impact of skills shortages in SNA. 3 CICS in a Service Oriented Architecture | www. ibm. com/cics