Summary of CICS System/390-non-System/390 intercommunication

Table 1 shows the communication functions that a CICS® System/390® product can support on links between itself and each non-System/390 CICS system-level product.

Note:
CICS on System/390’s support for the CICS Clients workstation products is described in Server Support for CICS Clients.

If a function is shown as supported in the table, it means that:

  1. The function is supported on all current System/390 products (CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®, CICS Transaction Server for OS/390®, CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA, and CICS/VSE).
  2. Both inbound and outbound requests are supported.

All functions are supported on LU 6.2 connections only. Data conversion, where necessary, is supported at each end of the link.

Table 1. CICS interproduct communication
CICS TS for z/OS, CICS TS for OS/390, CICS TS VSE/ESA, CICS/VSE CICS Transaction Server for Windows CICS on Open Systems CICS/400
Function shipping Yes Yes Yes
Transaction routing Yes Yes Yes
Distributed program link Yes Yes Yes
Distributed transaction processing Yes Yes Yes
Asynchronous processing Yes Yes Yes

Related concepts
Function shipping
Transaction routing
Distributed program link (DPL)
Asynchronous processing
Distributed transaction processing (DTP)
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