The EntireX z/OS CICS® RPC Server allows standard RPC clients to communicate with RPC servers on the operating system z/OS under CICS. It supports the programming languages COBOL and PL/I.
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.
Supported compilers are listed under z/OS Prerequisites in the EntireX Release Notes.
| Introduction | Introduction to the CICS RPC Server. |
| Administration | Administering the CICS RPC Server. SSL, 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/OS console commands. |
| Deployment Service | Customizing the deployment service for the CICS RPC Server. The deployment service is a prerequisite for deploying server-side mapping files. |
| 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 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. |