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EntireX z/VSE CICS® RPC Server

The EntireX z/VSE CICS® RPC Server allows standard RPC clients to communicate with RPC servers on the operating system z/VSE under CICS. It supports the programming language COBOL. It works together with the COBOL Wrapper and IDL Extractor for COBOL.

Supported compilers are listed under z/VSE Prerequisites in the Release Notes.

../graphics/gr_b_sm.gif Introduction Introduction to the CICS RPC Server.
../graphics/gr_b_sm.gif Administration Administering the CICS RPC Server. User exits, automatic start/stop during CICS start/shutdown, installing multiple CICS RPC servers in the same CICS.
../graphics/gr_b_sm.gif RPC Online Maintenance Facility How to start, ping, monitor, trace and stop the CICS RPC Server with the RPC Online Maintenance Facility from within CICS and z/VSE console commands.
../graphics/gr_b_sm.gif Deployment Service Customizing the deployment service for the CICS RPC Server. The deployment service is a prerequisite for deploying server mapping files (SVMs).
../graphics/gr_b_sm.gif SVM Files A server mapping file (SVM) is used at runtime to marshal and unmarshal the RPC data stream. This document provides information on source control, change management, comparing, etc. of SVM files.
../graphics/gr_b_sm.gif Scenarios and Programmer Information Steps to call your first RPC server customer code; programmer's information on exception handling - abort execution and return error to RPC client; automatic syncpoint handling.

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