Benefits of CICS Web support enhancements

The enhancements to CICS® Web support provide the following benefits:
  • CICS as an HTTP server can be managed more easily by using URIMAP resource definitions instead of, or as well as, an analyzer program. URIMAP definitions can be used to assign an HTTP request directly to a user application program, and you can administer them online.
  • Using URIMAP definitions, you can make CICS automatically provide static responses to a Web client, so you do not need to write and invoke an application program to provide this type of response. The static response can be formed from a CICS document template or a z/OS® UNIX System Services HFS file, and the response can incorporate data from a Web client's query string.
  • The UTF-8 and UTF-16 character encodings are available for code page conversion. The code page conversion process for CICS Web support is improved, and you no longer need to set up a code page conversion table (DFHCNV) for use with CICS Web support.
  • The CICS API supports translation between date and time stamp formats used on the Internet, and the CICS ABSTIME format.