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.