RMTCICS statement

Use this statement to define a TCP/IP connection to a remote IBM® CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® subsystem for ISC communications.

You can define multiple connections to one or more remote CICS subsystems by specifying a separate RMTCICS statement for each connection. Specifying multiple connections to the same CICS subsystem can, depending on the resources available at your installation, improve the performance of communications from IMS to the CICS subsystem.

A connection defined by a RMTCICS statement can be used only for ISC LU 6.1 communications over TCP/IP.

RMTCICS statement syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramRMTCICS(ID= rmtcicsname ,HOSTNAME= host_name ,PORT= port_id )

RMTCICS statement parameters

HOSTNAME=
The host name of the remote CICS subsystem that you are connecting to.

Your host name can be up to 60 characters in length.

An example of a host name is www.example.com.

ID=
The 1- to 8-character alphanumeric name that identifies this definition of a connection to a remote CICS subsystem.

The value specified here must also be specified on the RMTCICS parameter of a corresponding ISC configuration statement in the HWSCFGxx member of the IMS PROCLIB data set.

This parameter is required.

PORT=
The port number of the remote port that is used by the remote CICS subsystem. The port number must be specified as a 1- to 5-character decimal number.

This port number must match the port number defined in the TCPIPSERVICE resource definition for this ISC link in the remote CICS subsystem.

This parameter is required.