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Method 3: Connecting to a web server on a separate machine to the CICS host.

The following reasons have been stated for using this method:

  • off loading processing
  • historical - an internet server may have already been implemented on another platform
  • availability - if the MVS region has regular outages for maintenance
  • TCP/IP is not installed on the mainframe server

3.1 CICS Internet Gateway

3.2 CICS Transaction Gateway