The CICS catalog manager example application
The CICS® catalog manager example application is a working COBOL application that is designed to illustrate best practice when connecting CICS applications to external clients and servers.
- List the items in a catalog.
- Inquire on individual items in the catalog.
- Order items from the catalog.
The base application has a 3270 user interface, but the modular structure, with well-defined interfaces between the components, makes it possible to add further components. In particular, the application comes with web service support, which is designed to illustrate how you can extend an existing application into the web services environment.
For this example, the CICS Explorer® could be used to install and deploy the application. The CICS Explorer is an Eclipse-based graphical tooling interface for CICS.
Optional: Those users that do not use CICS Explorer can use the CEDA transaction to amend and install the resources contained in groups DFH$EXBS and DFH$EXWS.