CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® supports DCE remote procedure calls.
In conjunction with the OS/390® Unix Systems Services DCE Base Services MVS/ESA and OS/390 Unix Systems Services DCE Application Support MVS/ESA CICS Feature products, CICS Transaction Server for z/OS enables a CICS program to act as a server for a DCE RPC. (Note that DCE RPC uses the DCE Security and Directory Services.) This is described in DCE remote procedure calls.
The main advantage of a DCE remote procedure call over a CICS DPL call is that you can call CICS programs from non-CICS environments.
This section tells you what the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is and why you might want to use it. For more detailed information, you should refer to the books listed in DCE remote procedure calls.