CICS Socket Interface - Tips and Techniques - Applications

Review the "Application Programming Guide" chapters of the appropriate CICS TCP/IP Socket Interface Guide and Reference manual(s), and any other available documentation and/or sample code.

Choose between using the supplied concurrent server/listener (CSKL), or write your own concurrent or iterative server.

Suggest starting with a small/easy/trivial application, then attempt that native CICS Web server and/or CICS FTP server (or client) or CICS Telnet Server (or client) or ???.

Review security and/or data encryption requirements.

Review application debugging procedures, etc.

Review resource consumption and/or accounting and/or chargeback considerations.

As with the CICS standard command level API, validate LENGTH fields, and check/handle return codes.

Review monitoring/availability considerations.

If appropriate for your sysplex, review newer enhancements like BIND-based Domain Name System (DNS) and VIPA (Virtual Internet Protocol Address).

Last updated on August 4, 1999, by Steve Ware, <mailto:sfw@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu>.