Technical detail
Significantly enhanced integration and connectivity: TXSeries for Multiplatforms V7.1 further simplifies interoperability with CICS Transaction Server (CICSTS) and CICS Transaction Gateway (CICSTG) with the introduction of:
Container and Channels: a more flexible and structured method of passing data between program components. A set of new APIs are introduced that remove the restriction of a maximum of 32 KB previously applied to the amount of data that can be passed between programs by using a COMMAREA.
Interoperability between CICS regions over TCP/IP: TXSeries CICS regions and CICS TS regions can now interoperate over Internet Protocol (IP) for Distributed Program Links (DPL). This allows for networks to be standardized on IP, resulting in simplification of configuration and administration and thus making the system robust.
Improved system resilience, problem determination, and application development tooling:
TXSeries for Multiplatforms V7.1 continues to focus on its core value propositions by improving system resilience, problem determination, and application development tooling through:
System and application memory segregation that helps prevent applications from overwriting across boundaries thus avoiding corruption issues in many cases.
Logging history of all executed tasks for each application server process aiding better problem determination. This can be configured through the web administration console.
Linked programs across regions can be mapped to one back level region thus aiding problem determination.
Work Load Manager (WLM) has been upgraded to improve the availability of Application owning regions (AOR), thus minimizing ABENDs in case of an AOR outage and maximizing throughput.
Enhancements to Web Administration Console and Installation packaging: TXSeries for Multiplatforms V7.1 delivers a host of usability enhancements for start and shutdown of multiple applications, performance enhancements by moving WLM attribute validation from the server to the client side, reorganization of WLM view using groups, granular control on monitoring data, and concurrent monitoring of multiple regions.
