When to use the CICS bridge

The CICS bridge allows an application to run a single CICS program or a 'set' of CICS programs (often referred to as a unit of work). It caters for the application that waits for a response to come back before it runs the next CICS program (synchronous processing) and for the application that requests one or more CICS programs to run, but doesn't wait for a response (asynchronous processing).

The CICS bridge also allows an application to run a 3270-based CICS transaction, without knowledge of the 3270 data stream.

The CICS bridge uses standard CICS and WebSphere MQ security features and you can configure it to authenticate, trust, or ignore the requestor's user ID.

Given this flexibility, there are many instances where we can use the CICS bridge. For example, when you want to do any of the following:

 

System configuration for the CICS bridge

When you are setting your system up, you should ensure that:

When using shared queues, it is possible to use multiple bridge monitors on the CICS bridge in multiple CICS regions, however all bridge monitors must be associated with WebSphere MQ v6 queue managers.