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IBM CICS T ransa ction Server f or z / OS, V ersi on 3. 1 Deliver s CICS integration to enable reuse of CICS applications wi thin broader , on demand sce narios, through standard APIs and pro toco.
2 3 with a range of extensions and new capabilities, this suppor t now enables CIC S business logic to be exposed as Web service s, as par t of a ser vice - oriented archit ecture (S OA). T hese extensions include suppor t for WS - S ecurit y to help protect SOAP messages.
2 3 names ca n be provided at the same Internet Prot ocol (IP) address, which you can manage using CI CS system com mands. St atic responses can be provided for HT T P requests, forme d from a do cument template or hierarch i- cal file system (H F S) file.
4 5 Enha nc ed i nte rpr ogram d ata trans fer If you want to ex change more than 32K B of data bet ween programs, CIC S T ransactio n Ser ver now includes a new application programming interface (API ) , which introduces container s and channels . C ontainers are named blocks of data for passing information bet ween programs.
4 5 Cod e -p ag e c onv ersio n e nh an ce men ts The fu nction to convert da ta bet ween EBC DIC or ASCII and Unicod e, in either direction, is now added to the existing CICS T ransaction Ser ver AS CIII and EBC DIC co de -page conversions. This suppo rt uses IBM z / OS ® co nversion ser vices.
6 7 Enha nc ed C / C + + s upp ort With this release, CIC S T ransaction Ser ver introduces new suppor t for C / C++, which brings the perfor mance of these applications to a level comparable with that o btained with CO BO L, PL / I or As sembler applications.
6 7 With the se enhance ments to the WUI, t ogether with job- step access to bat ch repositories enhance ments, you can co nfigure CICS Plex System Manager with out having to activa te the CIC S Application S er ver (CA S) o r TSO components.
8 9 Pr o v idi ng a c omm on f r am ew or k In CIC S T r ansaction S er ver , Version 3. 1 , the IB M CIC S T r ansaction S er ver information center is released as a plug- in, powered b y Eclipse technology .
8 9 IB M CI C S Tra n sa c ti on S er ver, Ver sion 3. 1 a t a gl an ce Ha r d wa r e re qui r em en t s • Pr ocess or: One that suppo r ts th e prerequisite operating system and has s uf ficient processo r sto rage to me et th e requireme nts of the operating system, CIC S Tr ansact ion Ser ver , V ersi on 3 .
1 0 IB M CI C S Tra n sa c ti on S er ver, Ver sion 3. 1 a t a gl an ce ( c on t in ue d ) So f tw a r e r e q uir e me n t s (c on t in ue d ) Oth er supp ort ed softw are • IB M CI C S Uni versal Client, Version 5.0 or lat er • IB M CI C S T ransactio n Gateway , Version 5 .
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