There is a CICS® Client for each of the following operating systems:
- AIX®
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT
- Solaris
- HP-UX
- Linux 390
Each Client can attach to any or all of the following CICS servers:
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®
- CICS Transaction Server for OS/390®
- CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA
- CICS/VSE Version 2.3
- CICS/400
- CICS Transaction Server for Windows
- CICS on Open Systems
Table 5 shows the functions and communication protocols
that are supported on each CICS Client-CICS server link.
Table 5. IBM® CICS Client function and protocol support
CICS Servers |
ECI |
EPI |
Terminal Emulator |
Auto install |
LU 6.2 |
NetBIOS |
TCP/IP |
CICS Transaction Server for Windows |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
CICS on Open Systems |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
- |
Y |
CICS/400 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
- |
- |
CICS TS for z/OS Version 2.2 and above |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
- |
Y1 2 |
CICS TS for z/OS Version 2.1 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
- |
Y2 |
CICS TS for OS/390
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
- |
Y2 |
CICS TS for VSE/ESA |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
- |
- |
CICS/VSE V2.3 |
Y |
- |
- |
Y3 |
Y |
- |
- |
Notes:
- Y
- Function or protocol is supported
- -
- Function or protocol not supported
- ECI
- External Call Interface
- EPI
- External Presentation Interface
- Autoinstall
- User does not need to predefine the client connection to the server
- Native TCP/IP is supported. Using ECI over TCP/IP, all clients are supported,
but only the ECI (not the EPI nor the ESI) can be used.
- TCP/IP is supported through the use of IBM TCP62 and the AnyNet® feature of VTAM®. Using this method, only the Windows clients are supported, but both
the ECI and EPI can be used.
- Only single-session LU6.2 connections can be autoinstalled.
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