CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) is now in use in over a thousand
customer environments, with successful deployments across every major
industry, CICS TG is the strategic flexible, high-performing,
security-rich, and scalable method of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
access to CICS servers. Running on IBM z/OS® and Microsoft Windows?,
UNIX?, and Linux, CICS TG not only provides connectivity to CICS for JEE
certified application servers, but also allows a wide range of application
platforms to integrate with CICS including Java? applications, servlets,
and applets, Microsoft .NET framework applications, C, and COBOL
applications. The newest release of CICS TG, version 8.1, became available
in Fall 2011 and introduces enhanced high-availability support, IT
simplification, and Open platform integration.