C\FLOW is a CICS Web Support Program that acts as a listener for TCP/IP requests made from a client, using a HTTP protocol, to a Mainframe CICS region
The client can be running on any hardware that can make a HTTP request over TCP/IP
Clients Circle have seen:
Web Browser using an HTML page
Visual Basic
VB .NET
Java programs
C programs running on a PC
Machines have connected successfully are from a standard PC to a high end UNIX server
Clients make a standard HTTP Post request sending data in various formats
Formats supported:
Standard Commarea ( Raw Data )
Name Value Pairs ( application/x-www-form-url-encoded )
XML
SOAP/XML
C|FLOW listener can be configured to call a single program passing the data or reading the program name from the input stream. The latter gives you the ultimate in flexibility since you can run a single program and develop a standard for
communications
Performance - This measurement has been prove to be better than CTG ( Mainframe ), MQ and Native MVS Sockets in the area of 30% to as high as 98%. Remember depends on your current process.
