Cloud Enabling IBM CICS

Get full access to Cloud Enabling IBM CICS and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Creating a platform

This chapter reviews what a IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) Transaction Server (CICS TS) platform is, and the benefits of using it. Defining platforms on to which the General Insurance Application (GENAPP) can be deployed is a prerequisite to the activities described in the following chapters:

•3.1, “The CICS TS platform” on page 26

•3.2, “The role of a CICS TS platform” on page 26

•3.3, “The components of a CICS TS platform” on page 26

•3.4, “Example single-region platform project” on page 30

•3.5, “Outcome” ...

Get Cloud Enabling IBM CICS now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now