The EntireX RPC Server for CICS® ECI allows standard RPC clients to communicate with CICS programs running on IBM CICS®. It supports the programming languages COBOL and PL/I and transforms the RPC requests from clients into messages to CICS ECI.
For COBOL, it works together with the COBOL Wrapper and IDL Extractor for COBOL
For PL/I, it works together with the PL/I Wrapper and IDL Extractor for PL/I
The supported CICS environments are described in the prerequisites for z/OS in the Release Notes.
| Introduction | Introduction to the RPC Server for CICS ECI. |
| Administration | Customizing the RPC Server for CICS ECI; configuring the RPC server side and ACI client side; starting and stopping the RPC Server for CICS ECI. |
| Preparing IBM CICS for ECI | How to set up the External Call Interface (ECI) within CICS. |
| Server-side Mapping Files | Server-side mapping is used at runtime to marshal and unmarshal the RPC data stream. This document provides information on deploying, undeploying, change management etc. of server-side mapping files. |
| Scenarios | Steps to call your first RPC server customer code. |