CA1O: CICS TS V3.1 Service Flow Feature Abstract -------- CICS Service Flow Feature is a business service integration adapter for all CICS applications. It offers both tooling and run-time components. Description ----------- CICS Service Flow Feature is a business service integration adapter for all CICS applications offering both tooling and run-time components that enable enterprise solution architects, enterprise integration developers, and CICS application specialists to create CICS business services for integration in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), business process collaborations, or enterprise solutions that exploit a loose coupling approach. The CICS Service Flow Feature provides the capability to implement CICS business services by composing a sequence of CICS application interactions. In a single offering, CICS Service Flow Feature delivers: A graphical modeling integrated development environment that enables the creation of CICS business services by composing a flow of CICS application interactions A generation capability that transforms the composed flow of CICS application interactions to form a run-time application, highly optimized for the CICS environment, that retains the inherent qualities of service provided by the existing CICS application implementation. A run-time component, known as the Service Flow Runtime, that extends the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) environment. It provides adapters that exploit CICS interfaces to invoke the CICS terminal-oriented transactions and COMMAREA programs as required by the service flow. Skill level required -------------------- CICS or network administrator with understanding of the IP address and CICS systems used by the CICS Transaction Gateway. Details ------- Authors: CICS Development, Hursley Category: 3 Released: 05Sep08 Current Version: 3.1.0 Prerequisites ------------- Driving System Software Requirements (any of the following) 5694-A01 z/OS V1.4 or later 5655-G44 IBM SMP/E for z/OS and OS/390 V3.2 or later Mandatory Installation Requisites --------------------------------- 5655-M15 CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3.1 Conditional Operational Requisites ---------------------------------- 5655-M15 CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1.0 CICS Run-time Application Interactions 5655-A95 MQ Series for OS/390 V2.1.0 or later Asynchronous processing, connection to MQ enabled applications, simulator sample program. 5655-F10 IBM Websphere MQ Server for z/OS V5.3.1 or later Asynchronous processing, connection to MQ enabled applications, simulator sample program. If you intend you use the channel and containers interface to the CICS SFF, APAR PK28927 must first be applied to the Base CICS TS 3.1 system. Installation Instructions ------------------------- Please refer to Installation Instructions chapter in the user guide, listed below. Download Files -------------- ca1o ReadMe, 13211kb ca1o Program Directory, 83200kb ca1o.zip, 1573287kb Technical support ----------------- Category 3 SupportPacs are available at no charge to users of CICS products. They are supplied under the standard terms and conditions contained in the IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA) and provide for defect correction, until a date when service is discontinued. Please read the license file that accompanies the SupportPac, to determine if you want to use it. CICS SUPPORTPACS ---------------- To view the complete portfolio of CICS SupportPacs, go to the CICS SupportPacs Home Page: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1083&uid=swg27007241 Copyright and trademark information IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at "Copyright and trademark information" at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml