CICS® Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition provides single user desktop connectivity to CICS applications from a wide variety of client environments.

Client applications can be written in Java™, C, C++, COM, COBOL, or the .NET Framework, and communicate with CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition using either the local TCP/IP stack or interprocess communication. CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition offers these features and benefits

A simple programming model requiring minimal change to CICS programs
Access to CICS COMMAREA, channel and 3270 applications
A rich set of client application programming interfaces (APIs) for different runtime environments
Support for standard network protocols
Support for different operating platforms
Access to statistics and request monitoring information

CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition does not include Java Connector Architecture (JCA) resource adapter support, and some parameters have restrictions. For more information about the parameter restrictions see
Maximum requests
Maximum number of worker threads
Maximum number of connection manager threads
IPIC send sessions