Audience:  LOB IT Managers, CICS and WebSphere System Administrators, CICS and WebSphere Application Developers

Technical Level:  Basic-Intermediate

Much of the world’s data is processed on mainframes, using the qualities of service of proven transaction servers such as IBM CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS. Delivering access to new and existing CICS applications using standards based interfaces is the cornerstone of on demand business.

IBM CICS Transaction Gateway has been proven over many years to provide high-performing, security-rich and scalable access to CICS Transaction Server, requiring minimal changes to CICS systems and usually no changes to existing CICS applications.

This Webcast presents the business benefits and technical benefits of extending your existing CICS applications to a J2EE based SOA using the CICS Transaction gateway. It briefly introduces the tightly couples concepts of the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA), before comparing and contrasting with the more loosely coupled Web services technology.

It then discusses some of the many enhancements provided in CICS Transaction Gateway V6.0, before focusing on when and how to use the new two-phase commit support in CICS Transaction Gateway V6.1, delivered in 4Q 2005.

Speaker:  Andrew Bates, Product Manager, CICS Transaction Gateway