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z/OS CICS External Call Interface (ECI)

The CA Gen ECI communications runtime provides the interface mechanisms that CA Gen DPC applications can use to externally call a CICS DPS application using a CICS Distributed Program Link (DPL). The Target DPS appears as if it were called using an EXEC CICS LINK with the COMMAREA option.

The ECI protocol is supported by IBM CICS Universal Client software, which must be installed on the workstation hosting a Comm. Bridge that communicates with CICS using ECI.

z/OS CICS External Call Interface (ECI)

Installation and configuration information for CICS External Call Interface (ECI) appears in the z/OS Implementation Toolset Installation Guide.

Refer to the IBM CICS Universal Client publications information regarding CICS Universal Clients.