COM Transaction Integrator for CICS and IMS (COMTI) brings drag-and-drop simplicity to the development of sophisticated integration applications.
This feature allows developers to preserve existing CICS and IMS environments while moving to a three-tier client/server or web-to-host computing environment.
COMTI includes both a Windows NT Server run-time environment and an easy-to-use, powerful development tool. The run-time environment integrates Microsoft Transaction Server with mainframe CICS or IMS, and allows Microsoft Transaction Server applications to participate in fully distributed two-phase commit environments with CICS. The development tool, called the Component Builder, imports mainframe COBOL code and automatically generates an MTS-compatible object. As a result, application developers can program in the visual, object-oriented environments to which they are accustomed, and can have access to host transactions without needing to learn host applications programming or the intricacies of SNA.
For more information, see Chapter 10 of this publication.