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® Flexible, High-Performing, Security-Rich, and Scalable Connectivity with CICS Transaction Gateway Products IBM Redbooks Solution Guide The IBM® CICS® Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) product suite is the flexible, high-performing, security-rich, and scalable connector technology for all CICS servers. CICS TG based solutions are production proven in customer environments worldwide, with successful deployments across every major industry. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide gives an overview of the possibilities of the IBM CICS TG. Three CICS TG products are available to suit a wide range of requirements (Figure 1). The CICS TG products give application developers intuitive programming interfaces to access CICS business logic from multiple languages. The products also use standard CICS intercommunication facilities, thus requiring minimal configuration changes to get started.  IBM CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS®  IBM CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms  IBM CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition Figure1. The IBM CICS Transaction Gateway products Flexible, High-Performing, Security-Rich, and Scalable Connectivity with CICS Transaction Gateway Products 1 Did you know? CICS TG products provide application integration for approximately half of all customers using CICS server products today, processing billions of transactions each day, worldwide. Each CICS TG product enables integration for Java applications, servlets, or applets, .NET Framework-based applications, C, C++, and COBOL applications. Both CICS TG for z/OS and CICS TG for Multiplatforms provide integration for JEE-certified application servers, with exclusive features for IBM WebSphere® Application Server products, such as identity propagation and cross component trace (XCT). These two server-grade CICS TG products can be scaled to suit the capacity and availab