IBM® CICS® Transaction Gateway is a connector for enterprise modernization of CICS assets. It empowers various application platforms to incorporate CICS, including Java® servlets, applets, Microsoft™ .NET framework based applications, C and COBOL applications. CICS Transaction Gateway furnishes application programmers with APIs and offers the best characteristics of administration with JEE application servers.
IBM CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) includes these three offerings:
- CICS TG Desktop Edition
- CICS TG for Multiplatforms
- CICS TG for z/OS®
CICS TG for Multiplatforms v9.3 provides readily deployable CICS TG containers based on Red Hat® Universal Base Image which can be deployed across cloud platforms.
Deploy and manage dockerized CICS TG Multiplatforms instances on the cloud of your choice, using a consistent deployment toolchain, and improve DevOps efficiency.
Use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) web services without modifying existing environments to minimize risk and cost and retain high availability and scalability.
Connect virtually everything to CICS applications and servers with programming and deployment features for distributed platforms, including Java, Microsoft .NET, C/C++, C#, Visual Basic and COBOL.
Exploit CICS high availability infrastructure and increased security with JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), identity propagation and user authentication security.
Achieve end-to-end transaction tracking and performance monitoring with IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect (zAPM). Gain insight into active workloads and improve statistical proficiency.
Bridge the skill gap between UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Java-based application development platforms and IBM Z® systems.
No changes to CICS applications and minimal CICS definitions are needed to achieve greater CICS connectivity.
Enables simple and rapid mobile integration of your enterprise IBM® CICS® Transaction Server, CICS TX or IBM TXSeries® environment. You can build on your existing architecture to quickly provide mobile connectivity to back-end systems with JSON web services.
Uses a highly available gateway with policy-based, sysplex-wide dynamic server selection. Workload Partitioning, XA transactions and 64-bit Java® 8 enable remote client applications to exploit a CICS high availability infrastructure.
Tracks user requests from point of origin across the CICSplex® with support for problem determination and performance optimization. Performance management, monitoring and troubleshooting can be provided by IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON® XE for CICS on z/OS®.
Provides readily deployable CICS TG container based on Red Hat® Universal Base Image which can be deployed across cloud platforms. This enables simplified DevOps pipeline and ease of maintenance through rolling updates ensuring zero downtime.
Operates as a 32-bit or 64-bit address space. With 64-bit address space, the Gateway daemon can process workloads with larger channels and can use more connection manager and worker threads without exhausting address space resources.
Features monitoring and statistical facilities, giving planners and systems administrators insight into active workload patterns. Usage statistics are written in SMF type-111 record for offline analysis using IBM CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS and are available in XML format for easy consumption and analysis.
Simplifies operations for new and experienced staff with immediate access to a wide range of other tools through integration with CICS Explorer®. Provides an intuitive way of managing Gateway daemons with built-in Gateway and CICS test functions.
Allows clients to rapidly identify and resolve performance issues. Helps application topologies to be aware of calls made to z/OS resources and aggregate transaction time information.
Provides ability to design standard security solutions based on JWT. CICS TG delivers new APIs to support JWT for authentication for applications.
Standardize your security solution using JSON web token.
Track your transactions using IBM Z APM Connect.
Learn more about CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms V9.3 and CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition V9.3.
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See how cost effective it is to run this software on an IBM zIIP.
Read the announcement letter for CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms V9.3 and CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition V9.3.