This chapter contains Product-sensitive Programming Interface and Associated Guidance Information.
Security is an important concern in the provision of ONC RPC support in the CICS® environment, because CICS ONC RPC provides an Open Systems communications interface into CICS.
ONC RPC has its own security methods (called authentication in RPC) with dedicated fields in the ONC RPC call and reply message headers. There are three types of RPC authentication:
This section describes how CICS ONC RPC interacts with the security facilities of ONC RPC and CICS.