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1.2 Why use CICS Web services
A great many large commercial institutions, particularly in the financial sector
have been using CICS Transaction Server for decades now. The reasons are
many: robustness, performance, scalability, security, and so forth. The basic
transaction processing heart of CICS is still the same at the API interface, but
under the covers, many new features and performance improvements are
introduced. The choice to use these new features is left entirely as a business
decision.
IBM introduced support for a number of new interfaces for technologies that did
not exist when CICS was developed. The CICS Web Interface with TCP/IP
support is one such interface. More recently, support for CICS Web services ...