Support for DCE remote procedure calls (RPCs) enables a non-CICS client program running in an Open Systems Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) to link to a server program running in a CICS® system. For an introduction to DCE RPCs, see DCE remote procedure calls.
CICS server programs must:
CICS server programs can:
The Application Support server does not support CICS application programs that:
These restrictions are the same as those for CICS distributed program link servers. Thus, you may be able to use server programs written for CICS-to-CICS DPL as servers to DCE clients.
As described in Interface definition, you must use the DCE MVS/ESA Application Support server compiler to generate a data structure definition for the RPC parameters passed to your server program, and an execution stub for the server. You must link edit and load the stub into the server stub library.