Enterprise Server provides an execution environment for COBOL application programs. Within an
Enterprise Server, you can operate a number of
enterprise server instances. An
enterprise server instance provides session and state management for COBOL applications, as well as optionally interfacing with external resource managers
to coordinate resource updates.
The type of applications you can run on an
Enterprise Server installation fall into the following categories:
- COBOL applications running as services
- A service can contain a number of operations. Clients that use these operations supply the required input, and the service
returns the results.
- CICS regions
- In an
Enterprise Server environment, a CICS region can operate as an
enterprise server instance. These CICS regions behave in the same manner as those operating in a mainframe CICS environment. You can configure a CICS
region operating as an
enterprise server instance to communicate with a CICS region running on a mainframe.
- IMS applications
- You can configure an
enterprise server instance to run IMS applications.
- JCL jobs
- You can configure an
enterprise server instance to run batch initiator and batch printer JCL jobs.