TCP/IP services

XCICS TS may be accessed from external applications, by means of TCP/IP based services.

These services allows to remote application to connect and exchange data with an  XCICS/TS region over TCP/IP

Four different communication protocols are currently supported by XCICS TCP Services:

The first two protocols (classic and direct) emulates the behaviour of the the IBM EZASOKET listener, delivered with IBM CICS.

The Web Services Connector allows to activate CICS programs through from every web services enabled application, the SOAP protocol.

The ECI mode, allow to serve remote application which communicates with XCICS using the XECI interface.

HTTP allows to XCICS to act as an HTTP server and make user of the XCICS Web Support interface. User protocols are an extension fo the Web Interface and allow to the user to exchange non-HTTP requests. For further information about XCICS Web Interface, HTTP and user protocols, please refer to the XCICS Internet Guide.