Threadsafe Considerations for CICS

Get full access to Threadsafe Considerations for 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.

Introduction to CICS open transaction environment

This chapter provides introductory information about the CICS open transaction environment (OTE). It includes the following sections:

•The concept of the CICS open transaction environment

•CICS data integrity for shared resources

•Benefits of threadsafe-enabled applications

1.1 The concept of the CICS open transaction environment

CICS OTE is an architecture that was introduced for the following purposes:

•To allow CICS to make better use of the mainframe

With OTE, CICS can run more processes in ...

Get Threadsafe Considerations for 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