Patent ID: 9009257
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A CICS transaction routing system comprising: a mainframe with at least one processor and memory; at least one CICS executing on the mainframe, the CICS can include at least one transaction server and at least one connector; a transaction request originator executing on the mainframe; and, a direct return to source (DRS) routing module coupled to the at least one CICS, the module comprising program code enabled to allocate resources in the CICS in response to receiving a transaction request driven from a connector into the CICS, to determine whether the CICS is an intended endpoint of the transaction request, and to extract an address of an originator of the transaction request from the transaction request and to send a response to the originator at the extracted address upon determining that the CICS is the intended endpoint of the transaction request, but otherwise to route the transaction request to a different CICS along with the address within the transaction request.