Chapter 1. Introducing CICS 19
(OTE), and CICS Business Transaction Services (BTS) were just a few of the
new features added to CICS. Support for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) was
also added, as was support for inbound IIOP requests to Java application
programs.
IBM products, such as CICS Internet Gateway and the CICS Gateway for Java
were part of the CICS Universal Client, and later the CICS Common Client
Version 1. These products were available under the CICS Transaction Server
umbrella since it was released in the mid 1990s. As these smaller products
continued to grow, in 1998, CICS Transaction Gateway was released as a
technology preview with Version 2 of the CICS Common Client. CICS
Transaction Gateway Version 3.0 was officially rele ...