Product Overview

With TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for CICS, you can run CICS programs on the host (mainframe) computer and acquire the results for processing in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ application. Both commarea and container-based programs are supported, and multi-region routing, connection pooling, and copybook rendering and parsing.

The most common use case scenario for this product is one in which you can get or update some information on the host (mainframe) using an existing CICS program. To accomplish this, you only require the following information:
  • URL for the CICS region
  • Name of the program
  • Input copybook for the program commarea (or container)
  • Output copybook for the program commarea (or container)
  • Security credentials, if required
You can use the plug-in along with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Data Conversion to perform the following actions:
  • Take ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks XML data and transform it to CICS program input data.
  • Deliver input to Mainframe.
  • Check CICS security.
  • Run the program with the supplied input.
  • Receive the output back from CICS.
  • Deliver the program output back to BusinessWorks processes in XML format.