CICS JEE Inbound Resource Adapter

CICS® Transaction Gateway now provides an additional resource adapter - CICS JEE Inbound Resource Adapter, that provides the capability to allow TXSeries CICS Application to invoke JEE Applications in a global transaction under two phase commit protocol.

CICS applications hosted in TXSeries can access J2EE applications through standard interfaces like EXEC CICS LINK. This capability is provided from CICS TG V9.2.0.1 onwards. This is illustrated in figure below
Inbound interaction
CICS Transaction Gateway Inbound Resource Adapter provides following features:
  • A simple programming model requiring no change to CICS programs.
  • Access to J2EE applications from CICS applications using EXEC CICS LINK API.
  • Allow passing of COMMAREA from CICS Applications directly to J2EE applications.
  • Support for IPIC protocol.
  • This capability is supported on IBM AIX® and IBM Linux®, all the supported versions of Windows operating systems and Intel Linux platforms. This capability is not supported on IBM z Systems™ machine supported by Linux , Sun SPARC system supported by Oracle Solaris and HP Itanium system supported by HP-UX.
  • Support for two-phase commit transactions from TXSeries to JEE application server.
  • This capability is available only in local mode topology.

CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition: Support is not provided for the JCA resource adapter.

CICS JEE Inbound Resource Adapter supports incoming requests from TXSeries only. CICS TS is not supported with this resource adapter.

For more information on CICS JEE Inbound Resource Adapter, See http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAL2T_9.1.0/com.ibm.cics.tx.doc/concepts/c_tx_prdovr_ccwas_tran_mng_glb_tran_dpl_scn.html

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