CICS and SOA: Architecture and Integration Choices

CICS Web services scenario

This chapter looks at the example of a bank that wants to extend some of its CICS core banking services such as account transfers and posting inquiries to internal distributed systems and selected business partners. We review how the implementation of CICS Web services and the DataPower XI50z improves the bank’s business agility, reduces IT costs, minimizes risk, and simplifies IT complexity.

9.1 Objectives

Many banks have embarked on a core banking transformation strategy to gain flexibility and reduce cost. A service-oriented ...