IBM CICS Transaction Gateway for Application Development by IBM Corporation is a lightweight, secure connectivity layer that lets modern applications invoke CICS programs and access IBM Z assets without changing back‑end logic. Designed for developers, this non‑production edition provides the same client APIs and behavior as the production gateway, so teams can build, integrate, and unit‑test with high fidelity before deployment.
The gateway offers a Java client API and a JCA resource adapter for enterprise application servers, delivering connection pooling, workload management, and optional XA two‑phase commit for transactional integrity. It connects to CICS Transaction Server primarily over IPIC and supports robust security features such as TLS encryption and credential pass‑through to SAF (for example, RACF), helping preserve CICS security policies end to end. Operational insights are available through logs and standard monitoring interfaces, aiding troubleshooting during development.
Typical use cases include integrating Java and cloud‑native services with CICS business logic, modernizing access to mainframe data, and replacing screen‑scraping approaches with direct program calls. By decoupling front‑end applications from CICS internals, the gateway simplifies integration, preserves CICS qualities of service, and accelerates development cycles with production‑like runtime characteristics in a developer‑friendly package. more
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