The CICS® web support architecture for CICS as
an HTTP server varies depending on the tasks that you want it to perform.
Some configurable components of CICS web
support are required for all tasks, such as the TCPIPSERVICE definitions
for the ports that receive inbound requests. Other configurable components
are required for specific tasks only.
About this task
The subtopics tell you how to provide responses to HTTP requests
and how to communicate between web clients and CICS programs that
use the COMMAREA. In addition, these topics tell you how to enable
a web client using HTTP to access an existing 3270 display application
in CICS and how to receive non-HTTP requests from
a client and provide an application-generated response: