CICS Transaction Servers

IBM CICS® Transaction Server supports the following key capabilities and benefits:

• Interoperability
  Offers flexible intercommunication facilities allowing it to be supported and configured across a variety of networks

• Data management functions
  Provides interfaces that allow access to data held in databases, operating system data sets, and areas within CICS itself; the file control interface provides access to transactional record-level file systems

• Presentation management
  Supports the design of form-based applications, allowing many device dependencies to be abstracted from the application code and specified in a separate map library

• Real-time services
  Contains control functions that supervise and control the allocation of resources within the system, allowing CICS to manage its workload in a manner optimized for transactional work

• Application development services
  Offers a range of facilities to assist in the development of applications written in COBOL, C, C++, or PL/I

• Enhanced Java™ support
  Provides support for the persistent, reusable Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to ensure that Java applications have a high degree of isolation from each other while achieving execution speed comparable to that of procedural languages

• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) support
  Supports session beans, data access beans, JCICS facilities, the Java 2 security policy mechanism and the security specification of the EJB Version 1.1 architecture; enables

• Performance and systems management
  Ensures optimum performance for transactional applications by incorporating numerous features designed for high-performance operation, effective management of workloads in uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems, and monitoring the performance of actual workloads under a variety of conditions

• Why to choose CICS Transaction Server for new IT projects