Prerequisites

Before you can complete this scenario, you must ensure that the system requirements for CICS® Transaction Server, CICS Transaction Gateway, and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server are satisfied.

CICS Transaction Server:
  • The CICS server version must be CICS Transaction Server V3.2 or later because IPIC is not available in earlier releases of CICS.
  • TCP/IP services must be active in the CICS server.
    • To activate these services, set the TCPIP system initialization parameter to YES.
    • To check the status of these services, issue a CEMT INQ TCPIP command and check that the status is open.
  • The SEC system initialization parameter must be set to YES to enable security.
CICS Transaction Gateway:
  • CICS Transaction Gateway must be correctly installed.
IBM WebSphere Application Server:
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server must be installed on the same machine as CICS Transaction Gateway.

To test that the scenario works successfully you can use either the supplied samples, or your own applications. If you use the supplied samples you must install the sample CICS COBOL programs EC01, EC03 on the CICS server.

For information about the samples see COBOL, C and Map samples.