Using the ECI resource adapters

Start of changeThe details in this topic apply to Start of changeboth resource adapters (cicseci.rar and cicseciXA.rar)End of change.End of change

The ECI resource adapters allow a J2EE developer to access CICS® programs, using COMMAREAs Start of changeand channelsEnd of change to pass information to and from the server. Table 1 shows the JCA objects corresponding to the ECI terms listed in Input and output information for external calls to CICS. The CCI interfaces for CICS are in the com.ibm.connector2.cics package.
Table 1. ECI terms and corresponding JCA objects
ECI term JCA object: property
Abend code CICSTxnAbendException
COMMAREA Record
Start of changeChannelEnd of change Start of changeECIChannelRecord or MappedRecordEnd of change
Start of changeContainer with a data type of BITEnd of change Start of changebyte[]End of change
Start of changeContainer with a data type of CHAREnd of change Start of changeStringEnd of change
ECI timeout ECIInteractionSpec:ExecuteTimeout
LUW identifier J2EE transaction
Password ECIConnectionSpec:Password
Program name ECIInteractionSpec:FunctionName
Server name ECIConnectionFactory:ServerName
SocketConnectTimeout ECIConnection:SocketConnectTimeout
TPNName ECIInteractionSpec:TPNName
TranName ECIInteractionSpec:TranName
User ID ECIConnectionSpec:UserName