The Program-to-Program Interface

Note that you only need to use the NetView program-to-program interface for health checking and link monitoring as implemented in previous releases.

The NetView program-to-program interface provides the ability to communicate between a NetView application and other address spaces on the same host, such as CICS® and IMS. CICS Automation uses this program-to-program interface to:

• Initiate, from NetView, the execution of a CICS program
• Process a response from this CICS program
• From CICS initiate the execution of a command list or command processor in NetView
• Process a response from this command list or command processor

There are CICS Automation program-to-program interface components in CICS as well as in NetView. CICS Automation Concepts provides you with step-by-step procedures that tell you how to install these components so that the interface can be implemented.