Easier interaction with mobile devices and mobile-optimized gateways

CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 5 Release 2 provides support for web service requests with JSON and the conversion between JSON and application data. Support for JSON greatly simplifies the use of existing CICS services by mobile applications, particularly those managed by IBM® Worklight Server.

You can expose CICS applications as web services with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) payloads, create new RESTful applications, call existing JSON applications, and convert JSON from any source to and from the application data.

This support for JSON and REpresentational State Transfer (REST) was previously available in the CICS TS Feature Pack for Mobile Extensions.

Find out more

For information about JSON, see Getting started with JSON web services. For information about upgrading JSON web services, see Upgrading. For an architect's perspective on enabling mobile solutions with CICS, see this short video.