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Figure 47. Accessing <strong>CICS</strong> Applications from the Internet<br />

TDJ has also given some internal <strong>CICS</strong> applications <strong>with</strong> no Internet connection,<br />

such as the Accounting Control System, a much improved user interface by<br />

utilizing the Web browser as an alternative to the 3270 interface. <strong>The</strong> Web<br />

browsers can access any <strong>CICS</strong> region through the <strong>CICS</strong> Client running in same<br />

machine as the Web server.<br />

11.8 Region Location and Security<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are many <strong>CICS</strong> regions and thousands of clients in TDJ′s network.<br />

Security and resource management are important issues for TDJ. Accordingly<br />

TDJ has chosen to implement DCE CDS and security. DCE CDS dynamically<br />

manages the resolution of <strong>CICS</strong> regions and SFS server locations. DCE security<br />

services are used to authenticate <strong>CICS</strong> users. <strong>CICS</strong> internal security is then<br />

used additionally to control access to particular <strong>CICS</strong> resources such as<br />

transactions or files.<br />

<strong>The</strong> DCE servers are located on one node of the 8-node RISC System/6000 SP<br />

machine that TDJ owns (see Figure 48 on page 168). Availability is an important<br />

issue for TDJ. It does not want systems to be unavailable or inaccessible.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore it replicated its DCE CDS server. <strong>The</strong> replicated DCE CDS server is<br />

located on the 16-node RISC System/6000 SP. A separate machine was chosen,<br />

rather than another node on the 8-node RISC System/6000 SP machine, to<br />

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