What's new in programming
CICS Transaction Gateway V7.1 introduces IP
interconnectivity (IPIC) which provides enhanced TCP/IP support for the J2EE
Connector Architecture (JCA). This means that JCA now supports channels and
containers, using a MappedRecord structure to hold your data. When the MappedRecord is passed to the execute() method
of ECIInteraction, the method uses the MappedRecord itself to create a channel
and converts the entries inside the MappedRecord into containers before passing
them to CICS®. For more information on IPIC, see Introduction to IP interconnectivity (IPIC). For
more information on channels and containers, see Introduction to channels and containers.
- CICS Transaction Gateway enables users and third party vendors to write
tools to access request specific information. User exit points are provided
at key points in the product to allow user code to be run within the context
of each individual transaction. For further information see, Request monitoring user exits.
On distributed platforms, you can use ctgadmin
to control request monitoring user exits dynamically. The eventFired() method
can now be called with a new RequestEvent of "Command".
You can use the statistics API in remote
mode.