CICS Socket Interface - Tips and Techniques - Summary

The CICS Socket Interface feature is fairly easy to install, configure, and implement.

Small learning curve for application developers (maybe).

Unlimited ways to exploit this interface - makes CICS look more like an "Open Systems" and/or "Client/Server" environment. CICS = Cics Is Client Server.

We like the "roll your own" capabilities that the interface provides, and the "low-level" socket API.

We're getting near "sub-second" response time from CICS Web-based socket applications with up to hundreds of thousands of socket tasks daily in single CICS regions.

CICS is and has been a stable and robust server for us - plans are to continue to exploit CICS with the socket interface to provide more Web-based access and additional client/server type access from a variety of platforms.

IBM has been recommending their CICS Web Interface and the 3270 Bridge, which are developed and maintained by the IBM CICS Hursley labs. The CICS Socket Interface is developed and maintained by the IBM TCP/IP folks here in the "colonies".

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