Legstar module for mainframe connectivity

Question

We don't have CICS Tx Gateway installed but do have CICS Tx Server. I want to know if Legstar can connect from an ESB like (Mule,Camel,JBossESB,WSO2) to the z/OS mainframe using this module to CICS Transaction Server. Alternatively, if there are other options to connect to the mainframe, feel free to suggest.

TIA.

Answer 1

I think I saw in one of your several questions on this topic that you are using CICS TS 3.2; there is a section in the documentation germane to the discussion called Connecting CICS to the Web. Documentation for later versions and releases of CICS TS are available here.

As Joe Zitzelberger indicates, you can use raw TCP/IP sockets (we have done this since CICS TS version 1 more than a decade ago), REST/POX (we have done this since version 2.1 which we started using in 2006), and SOAP (available via a support pack in 2.3 and built into the product since 3.1).

You can also talk to CICS via MQ.

More discussion here.

Update per comment from OP: These are realtime synchronous interactions. In our case, response time is subsecond.

Answer 2

You can do a direct connection to CICS/TS with SOAP over HTTP to execute your CICS transactions and to return your data.