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.
Introduction | Introduction to the CICS RPC Server. | |
Administration | Administering the CICS RPC Server. User exits, automatic start/stop during CICS start/shutdown, installing multiple CICS RPC servers in the same CICS. | |
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. | |
Deployment Service | Customizing the deployment service for the CICS RPC Server. The deployment service is a prerequisite for deploying server mapping files (SVMs). | |
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. | |
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. |