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This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.4 which is generally available from today June 16th 2017.
For more information see the announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS217-113
CICS TS 5.4 provides Link to Liberty support. A CICS application can use the EXEC CICS LINK command to a Java EE application running in Liberty, and the Java application could use the JavaMail API to send an email to a server using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or other protocols. An alternative solution is to use the CICS SupportPac CA1Y that can be called via EXEC CICS LINK or a CICS event and provides facilities to merge runtime data with static templates and include attachments.
This RFE is also satisfied by CICS TS 5.4 which was announced on May 16th 2017 with a planned general availability date of June 16th 2017.
For more information see the announcement letter https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS217-113
CICS TS 5.4 provides Link to Liberty support. A CICS application can use the EXEC CICS LINK command to a Java EE application running in Liberty, and the Java application could use the JavaMail API to send an email to a server using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or other protocols. An alternative solution is to use the CICS SupportPac CA1Y that can be called via EXEC CICS LINK or a CICS event and provides facilities to merge runtime data with static templates and include attachments.
CICS TS 5.3 Apar PI63005 provides Link to Liberty support. A CICS application can use the EXEC CICS LINK command to a Java EE application running in Liberty, and the Java application could use the JavaMail API to send an email to a server using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or other protocols. An alternative solution is to use the CICS SupportPac CA1Y that can be called via EXEC CICS LINK or a CICS event and provides facilities to merge runtime data with static templates and include attachments.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server