Testing with CICS
Rational®
Integration Tester supports the recording and virtualization
of CICS® programs running on z/OS® that are called by CICS Distributed Program Link (DPL).
The CICS transport supports
interacting with such calls in CICS Transaction
Server (EXEC CICS LINK calls
and ECIRequest calls using IPIC) and CICS Transaction
Gateway (ECIRequest calls). CICS programs
can be called in a test via a CICS Transaction
Gateway.
About this task
The following conditions apply to testing and virtualizing CICS:
- Recording of channel-based calls requires Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel version 9.1.1 or newer, and CICS Transaction Gateway version 9.1 or newer.
- CICS Transaction Gateway is required to send a request to, or to receive a reply from, a CICS program in a test that is using the CICS transport. Web-enabled CICS programs or web services can be called by using the HTTP transport and do not require a gateway.