Support for Web Services transactions

The Web Services Atomic Transaction (or WS-AtomicTransaction) specification and the Web Services Coordination (or WS-Coordination) specification define protocols for short term transactions that enable transaction processing systems to interoperate in a web services environment. Transactions that use WS-AtomicTransaction have the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

The specifications can be found at OASIS.

Note: CICS® supports the November 2004 level of the specifications.

CICS applications that are deployed as web service providers or requesters can participate in distributed transactions with other web service implementations that support the specifications.