This part introduces the ability to expose existing CICS programs to mobile devices as part of a new workload. It describes two key mechanisms by which to do this, both of which involve hosting Java-based transformation services in CICS.

These two mechanisms involve the use of CICS Liberty JVM server, Java in CICS, and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and XML data serialization formats. CICS Liberty JVM server allows standard Java components to be deployed to CICS, and CICS Java allows CICS web services to run in a Java-based pipeline.

This section includes the following chapters: