CICS and CICS-LINK

This section covers the details of passing data to and from mainframe TP programs and their operating environment, Customer Information Control System (CICS). The next section covers the COMTI Component Builder development tool required to help you gain access to TP programs from a PC. COMTI, then, enables you to bring the reliability of mainframes into the distributed PC world via SNA Server. This is done in a sequential multistep process. First, I define the CICS operating environment.

CICS is IBM's transaction manager for MVS. The CICS subsystem contains regions that, in turn, contain mainframe programs (TPs). Resource and security management can also be contained within regions. Because each TP runs in its own address space, ...

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