Implementing IBM CICS JSON Web Services for Mobile Applications

In addition, this Redbooks publication provides a broad understanding of the new CICS architecture that enables you to make new and existing mainframe applications available as web services using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and provides support for the transformation between JSON and application data. While doing so, we provide information about each resource definition, and its role when CICS handles or makes a request.

We also describe how to move your CICS applications, and business, into the mobile space, and how to prepare your CICS environment for the following scenarios:

• Taking an existing CICS application and exposing it as a JSON web service
  
• Creating a new CICS application, based on a JSON schema
  
• Using CICS as a JSON client
  

CICS applications and their associated data constitute some of the most valuable assets owned by an enterprise. Therefore, the protection of these assets is an essential part of any CICS mobile project. This Redbooks publication, after a review of the main mobile security challenges, outlines the options for securing CICS JSON web services, and reviews how products, such as Worklight and IBM DataPower®, can help. It then shows examples of security configurations in CICS and Worklight.