Statement of Direction: CICS TS support for mobile and one time charge (OTC) pricing

As documented in the IBM Worklight V5.0 and Mobile Foundation announcement (213-093), IBM makes the following statement of general direction (SOD) :

• IBM intends to deliver enhanced support for mobile applications interacting with IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) services, using the lightweight data-interchange format JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
• In addition, IBM intends to introduce support for deploying qualified new CICS TS workloads on IBM System z New Application License Charges (zNALC) Logical Partitions (LPARs). Qualified new CICS TS applications, including approved mobile and service-enabled applications running in the CICS TS Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Server, will be eligible for CICS TS one-time-charge (OTC) pricing when deployed to a zNALC LPAR.

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A PDF of this statement of direction is available: CICS TS SoD 19022013.pdf