Configuring an extended transactional client

For each platform, the extended transactional client provides support for the following external transaction managers:

XA compliant transaction managers
The extended transactional client provides the XA resource manager interface to support XA compliant transaction managers such as CICS(R) and Tuxedo.
Microsoft Transaction Server (Windows(R) systems only)
On Windows systems only, the XA resource manager interface also supports Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). The WebSphere MQ MTS support supplied with the extended transactional client provides the bridge between MTS and the XA resource manager interface.
WebSphere Application Server
The extended transactional client supports WebSphere MQ JMS applications that connect to a queue manager in client mode and use WebSphere Application Server as the transaction manager.

This chapter describes how to configure the extended transactional function for each category of transaction manager. The chapter contains the following sections: