CICS Connectivity Essentials

Project and Program: Application Architecture Development and Integration, CICS

Tags: Proceedings, 2016, SHARE in San Antonio 2016

With CICS Transaction Server providing the core services on which many of these applications rely; the importance of being able to connect to CICS and reuse these core services continues to increase. When CICS introduced native Web services about a decade ago; SOA became a reality for CICS customers. Today; many customers are doing tens of millions of SOAP based CICS Web services per day. Some are doing much more. But SOAP based CICS Web services are only a part of the CICS connectivity story. Support for the REST architectural style in CICS is an increasingly popular alternative to SOAP. And JSON is a popular alternative to XML for many application use cases. In this session; we will explore the different CICS connectivity options; suggest use-cases in which they can be of most value; and most importantly; learn which is the right tool for the job.-Fraser Bohm-IBM Corporation

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