PIE®/CICS-NetGate

With PIE/CICS-MultiCICS and PIE/CICS-NetGate working together, users can access up to a maximum of 99 simultaneous applications. Sessions support any applications running within a CICS region or MRO complex.

PIE/CICS-NetGate provides VTAM access with significantly less performance overhead than a traditional VTAM session manager. Some savings are a result of PIE/CICS-NetGate’s more efficient VTAM connections, however, the greatest reduction in overhead comes from the partnership of PIE/CICS-MultiCICS and PIE/CICS-NetGate. Using both products together, VTAM resources are used only when a user is in a PIE/CICS-NetGate session; not continuously. If users spend 90% of their time in their standard PIE/CICS-MultiCICS sessions and only 10% in PIE/CICS-NetGate sessions, they incur only a 10% VTAM overhead.

With PIE/CICS-NetGate, users can access applications that run as separate VTAM APPLIDs, yet still remain connected to other sessions. Users can switch back and forth between PIE/CICS-NetGate sessions and cut and paste data between applications.

PIE/CICS-NetGate uses VTAM services to communicate between sessions. PIE/CICS-NetGate emulates a virtual terminal to communicate with a target region or application. The virtual terminal acts a conduit, sending information back and forth between the physical terminal that requested the PIE/CICS-NetGate session and the VTAM application.