Getting started with intercommunication

There are two types of intercommunication; multiregion operation and intersystem communication, and a number of basic intercommunication facilities that CICS provides.

The basic intercommunication facilities that CICS provides are:
  • Function shipping
  • Asynchronous processing
  • Transaction routing
  • Distributed program link (DPL)
  • Distributed transaction processing (DTP).

Multiregion operation through Distributed transaction processing describe each of these in more detail.