Support for Web Services transactions

The Web Services Atomic Transaction (or WS-AtomicTransaction) specification and the Web Services Coordination (or WS-Coordination) specification define protocols for short term transactions that enable transaction processing systems to interoperate in a Web services environment. Transactions that use WS-AtomicTransaction have the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.

The specifications can be found at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-tx/.
Note: Start of changeCICS supports the August 2005 level of the specifications.End of change

CICS® applications that are deployed as Web service providers or requesters can participate in distributed transactions with other Web service implementations that support the specifications.