An edition of CICS Transaction Gateway
CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms provides scalable, multi-user, standards-based connectivity to CICS applications.
It offers your WebSphere products secure and scalable access to CICS Transaction Server and TXSeries for Multiplatforms.
- CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms V8.1 delivers scalable, multi-user access to CICS TS for z/OS, CICS TS for VSE, TXSeries, and CICS TS for I, and is an ideal deployment option for less-demanding environments, or when managed by distributed system administrators
- Minimal changes to CICS configuration and usually no changes to CICS applications
- External Call Interface (ECI) V2 API enables easy connectivity from a wide variety of environments, including Java, C, Microsoft .NET, and COBOL runtimes
- New! Policy-based Dynamic Server Selection, support for AIX Workload Partitioning, support for Java 6, plus support for CICS TS V4.2 including Transaction Tracking and password phrases
- Enhanced! JCA 1.6 exploitation supporting WebSphere Application Server V8 and other JEE 1.6 certified application servers
- Enhanced! Plug-in for the CICS Explorer provides new views and customizations, integrated connection management, and built-in test functions.
- Operating system: z/OS, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows
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Features and benefits
Rapid SOA access to CICS Transaction Server for z/OS and TXSeries for Multiplatforms
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. Because much of the world's data is processed using the qualities of service of proven transaction servers such as IBM CICS® Transaction Server and IBM TXSeries® for Multiplatforms, delivering access to these CICS applications using standards-based interfaces is a vital and core step in the journey to SOA.
IBM CICS Transaction Gateway has been proven over many years to provide highly flexible, security-rich and scalable access to CICS applications, requiring minimal changes to CICS systems and usually no changes to existing CICS applications. With IBM CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms, Version 7.0, you can use your CICS communications area (COMMAREA)-based and 3270-terminal based applications in comprehensive and sophisticated Java™ and Web services solutions hosted on IBM WebSphere® SOA Foundation server products such as IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) and IBM WebSphere Process Server. Reusing these applications in mixed CICS and WebSphere workloads deliver real business value by supporting reuse, which gives your organization flexibility and helps reduce cost.
Java EE platform, standards-based composite applications
CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms supports the standard Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connector Architecture (JCA), Version 1.5 specification as its strategic interface. As a component of the Java EE specification, alongside other standard services, the JCA provides a standard programming interface to all enterprise information systems (EISs).
Using JCA offers two significant development advantages. First, it enables Java EE developers to program to a standard interface that is widely supported in education materials and software tools from IBM and non-IBM vendors. Second, JCA provides delegated management of connection pooling, transactional scope and security control, so that Java EE developers don't have to develop these capabilities within the application. Together, these benefits mean that better applications can be developed faster and more easily.
A number of complementary tools with the IBM software-development platform support CICS Transaction Gateway and JCA. Together these products can deliver a complete end-to-end IBM solution that can help minimize cost, risk and time to market of new applications.
Key enhancements in CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms, V7.0:
Introduction of real-time monitoring of CICS Transaction Gateway systems, providing the ability to analyze system utilization metrics and perform online problem determination.
Extension of networking capabilities to including support for IPv6 connections, a wider range of SNA support, and an option to reduce network overheads networking capabilities.
The advancement of security capabilities to include TLS, Version 1.0 support, enabling more stringent encryption capabilities and better interoperation with a variety of secure clients.
System requirements
CICS Transaction Gateway Specified Operating Environment includes the following hardware and software products. New versions and releases of software in the Specified Operating Environment may be supported after General Availability.
| Operating System | Software | Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| * | More supported IBM and Third-Party software for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.0 | |
| AIX | One of the following operating systems: AIX V5.2 or AIX V5.3 (with 32-bit and 64-bit kernels) More supported IBM and Third-Party software for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.0 |
CICS Transaction Gateway, Version 7.0 runs on any hardware capable of running the relevant operating system and prerequisite software. |
| HP-UX | One of the following operating systems: HP-UX11i V2 (with 32-bit or 64-bit kernels) More supported IBM and Third-Party software for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.0 |
CICS Transaction Gateway, Version 7.0 runs on any hardware capable of running the relevant operating system and prerequisite software. |
| Linux | One of the following operating systems: Linux on Intel: RHEL 3, RHEL 4, SLES 9 or SLES 10, (with 32-bit kernels) Linux on POWER: RHEL 3, RHEL 4, SLES 9, or SLES 10, (with 64-bit kernels) Linux on zSeries: RHEL 3 (with 31-bit kernel), or RHEL 4, SLES 9, SLES 10 (with 64-bit kernels) More supported IBM and Third-Party software for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.0 |
CICS Transaction Gateway, Version 7.0 runs on any hardware capable of running the relevant operating system and prerequisite software. |
| Solaris | One of the following operating systems: Solaris V9 or Solaris V10 (with 32-bit or 64-bit kernels) More supported IBM and Third-Party software for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.0 |
CICS Transaction Gateway, Version 7.0 runs on any hardware capable of running the relevant operating system and prerequisite software. |
| Windows | One of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows 2003 (with 32-bit kernels) More supported IBM and Third-Party software for CICS Transaction Gateway V7.0 |
CICS Transaction Gateway, Version 7.0 runs on any hardware capable of running the relevant operating system and prerequisite software. |
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Transaction processing
- CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS
- CICS Explorer
- CICS Transaction Gateway
- CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition
- CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms
- CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.2
- CICS Universal Client
- REXX for CICS
- WebSphere Transaction Cluster Facility
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