Thursday, 2 December 2004

IBM's Web Services for CICS

IBM today announced the release of Customer Information Control System (CICS) Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1, which includes web services support that extends CICS applications to an SOA and provides support for the SSL security protocol. CICS is the technology that makes it possible for enterprises such as banks and retailers to process millions of transactions (mostly credit card transactions) per day. The new software is aimed at systems that account for more than US trillion of transactions each day.

IBM also announced CICS Transaction Gateway V6.0, which enables tightly coupled technologies such as the Java Connector Architecture and loosely coupled web services to coexist and exploit the agility of an on-demand operating environment. The enhanced gateway provides enhanced performance and scalability, and improved systems management and security, including more functional and integrated administration interfaces and enhanced SSL support.