1.1 What You Need to Know

This document is primarily for CICS system administrators who configure and administer TMA TCP. In addition, programmers can find useful pointers for developing client programs and service routines that send data through to the remote TMA TCP gateway.

Programmers who work with TMA TCP should be familiar with CICS applications development.

System administrators who work with TMA TCP must be familiar with the following concepts, tools, and procedures:
  • TCP/IP networking
  • IBM CICS Sockets Interface
  • Defining new resources to CICS
  • Standard CICS monitoring tools