Operating the CICS bridge

 

This chapter describes how to operate the WebSphere MQ CICS bridge. It discusses the following topics:

• Starting the CICS bridge

• Shutting down the CICS bridge

For information on how to write programs that will interact with existing CICS transactions and programs using the WebSphere MQ CICS bridge, see WebSphere MQ Application Programming Guide. For information on how to set up the queues and other definitions needed by the bridge see WebSphere MQ for z/OS System Setup Guide. For further details of the MQCIH and other MQ headers see WebSphere MQ Application Programming Guide. For details of the CICS 3270 bridge see 'Bridging to 3270 transactions' in the CICS External Interfaces Guide.