Adding CICS support for programming languages

You must add runtime support for the programming languages used with the CICS® command level (EXEC) programming interface before you can install your application programs.

About this task

To write CICS application programs that request CICS services through the command-level application programming interface (API), you can use Assembler language, C and C++, COBOL, or PL/I.

CICS provides the support required to run application programs written in Assembler language, and Language Environment® provides the required support for all the other languages.

The programming guidance documentation expects that your CICS system is using the services of Language Environment, which provides a common runtime environment for IBM® implementations of Assembler and those high-level languages (HLLs) supported by CICS, namely COBOL, PL/I, C, and C++. Supported compilers are listed in High-level language and compiler support.