David Crayford asked: >Are CICS customers allowed to run WLP outside of CICS?
I'm not sure, but does it matter? If desired, Liberty can be in a completely separate, standalone CICS region. As it happens, Liberty within CICS supports CICS transaction and resource security, and that's quite special. If it does matter, and if your customers don't already have WAS for z/OS licenses, then "ask your friendly IBM representative" about standalone Liberty for z/OS OEM licensing. It at least can't hurt. The term of art is an "IBM Embedded Solution Agreement" (ESA): https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/pw_com_sol-embedded-solution-agreement By the way, there are many Liberty z/OS affinities besides the simple one you describe. Examples include z/OS operator commands, SMF logging (such as writing SMF records for HTTP requests), the z/OS Optimized Local Adapters, z/OS RRS transaction management, and WLM support. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
