IBM 3.1 manual Highlights, Increased integration of CICS applications

Offering easier integration with Web services, enhanced application transformation, and improved performance and enterprise-management capabilities

IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, Version 3.1

Highlights

Delivers CICS integration to enable reuse of CICS applications within broader, on demand scenarios, through standard APIs and protocols

Provides application-transformation capabilities that enable you to enhance existing applications and construct new applications, using contemporary programming languages, constructs and tools

Offers enterprise-management capabilities to help you effectively manage large run-time configurations using modern user interfaces, so you can meet demanding service-level objectives

Many enterprises have assessed the opportunities and advantages presented by on demand business technologies. Now, they’re aggressively moving forward to implement

flexible business processes that take advantage of new technologies, while still leveraging existing IT assets. With this flexible architecture in place, companies can gain the momentum they need to achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace. To keep pace, you must ensure that your business processes integrate across your company and with partners, suppliers and customers by building an ecosystem that can respond to any market opportunity or competitive threat.

The industry-leading transaction- processing platform

With this release, IBM CICS® Transaction Server, Version 3.1 provides the flexible platform you need to move your organization toward becoming an on demand business. To help you create an on demand operating environment, CICS Transaction Server, Version 3.1 provides a range of major enhancements that can be grouped into three primary areas:

•Increased integration of CICS applications

•Enhanced application transformation

•Improved performance and enterprise management

Through these enhancements, CICS Transaction Server, Version 3.1 can:

		CICS Transaction Server Version 3.1
	SOAP
	message	Web services
		support
Service requester
	HFS
	WSDL
		Data mapping
CICS Web
services assistant		Business
		logic
	WSBind
Language
structure

•Integrate with modern development environments, helping to reduce the cost of producing new technology solutions and the time to market for production of traditional applications.

•Enable new Java™ applications to extend the value of existing applications with their proven, operational business logic, while minimizing your risk .

CICS Transaction Server extends its support for Web services technology.