Interregion communication (IRC)

CICS® multiregion operation (MRO) enables CICS regions that are running in the same MVS™ image, or in the same MVS sysplex, to communicate with each other. MRO does not support communication between a CICS system and a non-CICS system such as IMS™. 2

ACF/VTAM and SNA networking facilities are not required for MRO. The support within CICS that enables region-to-region communication is called interregion communication (IRC). IRC can be implemented in three ways:

This topic describes the communication part of MRO. Multiregion operation (MRO) gives a brief description of multiregion operation.


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The external CICS interface (EXCI) uses a specialized form of MRO link to support: communication between MVS batch programs and CICS; DCE remote procedure calls to CICS programs.

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