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•The first application programs for CICS had to be written
in Assembler.
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•By the 1970’s support for COBOL and PL/I were added.
[Ankrum]
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•Although CICS supports a variety of languages, most
applications are written in COBOL.
[Menendez]
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•Rexx is not really for application programming, but is
similar to a Unix scripting language.
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•Besides the programming languages listed above, you may
write programs in Visual basic to interact with CICS via IBM’s Extended Call
Interface (ECI). HTML can communicate
with CICS via Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) [Horwill]
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•RPG II was briefly supported and then dropped. Ada development support was also dropped
due to a lack of market acceptance. [Ankrum]
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