Application Environment Requirements

To access a CICS back end, end-to-end transaction tracing Java applications must use one of the following methods:

Java to CICS using HTTP
Java to CICS using Web Services
Java to CTG and then to CICS (using Channels, or with special review COMMAREA, which must allow for decoration)
Java to MQ and then to CICS

To access an IMS back end, end-to-end transaction tracing Java applications must access MQ and then to IMS.