Intercommunication facilities available using IPIC

IPIC supports the following types of intercommunication functions for their respective product releases:

• Distributed program link (DPL) calls between CICS® TS 3.2 or later regions.
• Distributed program link (DPL) calls between CICS TS and TXSeries® Version 7.1 or later.
• Asynchronous processing of EXEC CICS START, START CHANNEL, and CANCEL commands, between CICS TS 4.1 or later regions.
• Transaction routing of 3270 terminals, where the terminal-owning region (TOR) is uniquely identified by an APPLID between CICS TS 4.1 or later regions.
• Enhanced method of routing transactions that are invoked by EXEC CICS START commands between CICS TS 4.2 or later regions.
• ECI requests from CICS Transaction Gateway Version 7.1 or later.
• Function shipping of all file control, transient data, and temporary storage requests between CICS TS 4.2 or later regions. Function shipping of file control and temporary storage requests using IPIC connectivity is threadsafe between CICS TS 4.2 or later regions. Function shipping of transient data requests using IPIC connectivity is threadsafe between CICS TS 5.1 or later regions.
• Threadsafe processing for the mirror program and the LINK command in CICS TS 4.2 or later regions to improve performance for threadsafe applications.
• RESTful API calls through z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition