A transaction-processing monitor is an essential component of a healthy corporate IT system. It manages and augments the transactional processes that keep your revenue flowing.
As a part of CICS family, TXSeries for Multiplatforms is a distributed CICS Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment for mixed language applications. It is widely used for integrating data and applications between distributed solutions and enterprise systems, and the deployment of CICS applications written in COBOL, C / C++, and PL/I.
You can use the high-performing, distributed transactional services created by TXSeries software in a stand-alone environment, or in support of larger mainframe and Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application deployments. And TXSeries uniquely offers you the ability to scale up to a centralized IBM.
It can be integrated as a component of your service-oriented architecture (SOA), enabling end-to-end, distributed mixed language solutions through integration with WebSphere Application Server and CICS Transaction Gateway. WebSphere MQ can be used to connect TXSeries to IBM WebSphere Message Broker, or to any other product that supports native MQSeries transport.
TXSeries also provides extremely good connectivity with CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) on z/OS. This acts as a gateway to CICS TS on z/OS to increase the performance of CICS TS on z/OS and protect it from client-originated disruption. Uniquely, TXSeries allows you to scale up to CICS TS on the mainframe if the needs of your business grow.
TXSeries for Multiplatforms V6 delivered a significant step forward in distributed CICS transaction-processing monitor technologies by internalising the functions provided by DCE and IBM Encina®. They have been replaced with equivalent systems functions within the CICS online transaction processor (OLTP) and CICS structured file server (SFS). This latest release of TXSeries, V6.2, continues to offer increases user effectiveness, system resilience, and interpretability, while addressing a large number of customer requirements.
Three main enhanced areas in Version 6.2
Extension to a vastly simplified infrastructure: greater focus on simplification of installation, configuration, and administration including the removal of the DCE and Encina prerequisites from all supported platforms
Significant enhanced administration capability with greater control: adding advanced features such as workload management and monitoring tooling to its powerful and intuitive Web-based administration console, designed to look and behave in a very similar way to the WebSphere Application Server administration console
More power, reliability and availability: enhanced CICS API and SPI support for greater interoperability, higher resilience, and a greater recovery process to deliver maximized system availability
