Why do I need CICS business transaction services?

CICS® has always provided a robust transaction processing environment. For example, it:

In recent years, much emphasis has been placed on continuous operation and high availability of CICS. Use of sophisticated technologies, such as the Parallel Sysplex®, with resource managers sharing data across the sysplex, has led to improved system availability through the elimination of single points-of-failure. CICS business transaction services (BTS) bring a similar sophistication to the CICS application programming interface (API), making it better able to model complex business transactions.

Related concepts
Business transactions and CICS transactions
What are CICS business transaction services?
Using the BTS API to write business applications
The Sale example application
Appendix. The BTS sample application
Related tasks
Using the BTS API to write business applications
Related reference
BTS Application Programming Reference
BTS System Programming Reference

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Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter, Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, 1993

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