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Product overview

CICS® Service Flow Runtime V3.1 (CICS SFR) is the server runtime environment to the adapter services that are modeled, generated and deployed using the Service Flow Modeler tool.

Service Flow Modeler is available in WebSphere® Developer for zSeries® V6.0.1, WebSphere Developer for System z® V7.0, and IBM® Rational® Developer for System z V7.1. CICS Service Flow Runtime V3.1 supports adapter services that are generated by all these tools, although it is recommended that you use IBM Rational Developer for System z where possible.

An adapter service is a reusable composed business function that exposes a programmatic interface to a service requester in an Enterprise Information System (EIS). Adapter services are implemented in two stages:

Depending on how the adapter service is modeled, it can contain a wide variety of functionality, such as control flow, data flow, sequential navigation, conditional branching including decision and iteration, data typing, storing data context, transformation of data elements, logical operations and custom code. CICS Service Flow Runtime is able to support this by using CICS Business Transaction Services (BTS).

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