Modern business applications demand user interfaces with sophisticated features. Many such features are provided by web browsers that communicate with server technology to access corporate data and drive business processes. In many large corporations, the server of choice with which the browser communicates is the IBM mainframe.

Javascript tools such as Dojo have enabled the rapid development of browser based user interface functions. The Dojo toolkit itself has to be served to the browser and it is sensible to retain control over what is served up to the browser as part of a corporate business application. The CICS JS/Server allows the Dojo Javascript toolkit to be installed and controlled on the  mainframe from well understood mainframe PDS datasets.

CICS JS/Server offers the means to serve the Dojo Javascript toolkit directly from mainframe PDS datasets via CICS. Easy to install and use, CICS JS/Server exploits the usual  mainframe industrial strength capabilities that corporate systems demand.

CICS JS/Server was devised to provide control over the serving of the Dojo Javascript Toolkit as it is used by our other product, PlexSpy Application Status Monitor. The realisation that such control was needed led to the development of this solution. It became apparent that our own requirements for control over the Dojo Javascript Toolkit would be matched within other companies that use it.

Simple to install and implement.

Capable of scaling to meet the needs of high performance systems. 

This new release of CICS JS/Server supports the latest (at the time of writing) version and release of the Dojo toolkit (1.7.2). It continues to support the earlier Dojo Toolkit versions 1.5.0 and 1.6.1.

Dojo Toolkit 1.7.2 has been completely refactored around a lightweight modular kernel with minimal base dependencies and retains compatibility with older versions of Dojo.

For more information about Dojo, visit http://dojotoolkit.org/