The documentation plan

This manual provides an overview of how all the CICS® products communicate. Each CICS product has its own intercommunication manual which provides greater detail on how that product is configured and what functions are available to it.

The configurations with all the CICS products, and the associated documentation, are shown in Figure 1. This shows each CICS product in communication with another product of the same type, and then all products being interconnected. The highlighted numbers in the figure refer to the following manuals:

  1. CICS on System 390 Intercommunication Guide. (This means the Intercommunication Guide for your CICS on System/390® product.)
  2. CICS Family: Communicating from CICS on System/390
  3. CICS TS for Windows, Intercommunication
  4. CICS on Open Systems Intercommunication Guide
  5. CICS/400 Intercommunication

The order numbers of these manuals are listed in Bibliography.

Figure 1. Sessions between CICS systems. This figure shows the coverage of each of the CICS intercommunication books. The numbers refer to the books in the list of books.
 The picture shows each CICS product in communication with another product of its own type, and with one of each of the other types. The communication link between two products is called a session. Each of the two linked products is responsible for a half-session. How a particular product sets up a half session is described in that product’s intercommunication manual.

Related concepts
CICS communication support
CICS Clients
Data conversion
Configuring CICS for SNA communications
Related reference
Bibliography
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