Communicating security credentials between cics regions

A computer-readable storage medium, with instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

• receive a dataset from a first Customer Information Control System (CICS) application executing on the computer and within a first CICS region, the dataset received from the first CICS application for transmission to a second CICS application in a second CICS region;
• when the dataset includes a channel, populate a container of the channel with credential data to authenticate the dataset within the second CICS region;
• and
• forward the dataset to a CICS transformer process of the first CICS region to transform and communicate the dataset to the second application in the second CICS region.

A system comprising

• at least one processor and at least one memory device coupled via at least one electrical interconnect;
• an operating system stored on the at least one memory device and executable by the processor;
• a Customer Information Control System (CICS) stored on the at least one memory device and executable in at least one region instance by the at least one processor within a computing environment of the operating system;
• a security data process stored on the at least one memory device and executable by the at least one processor within a computing environment of the operating system to:
• receive a dataset from a first CICS application executable within a first CICS region, the dataset received from the first CICS application for transmission to a second CICS application in a second CICS region;
• when the dataset includes a channel, add a container and populate the added container with credential data to authenticate the dataset within the second CICS region;
• and
• forward the dataset to a CICS transformer process of the first CICS region to transform and communicate the dataset to the second application in the second CICS region.

A method comprising:

• receiving, on a hardware computing platform, a dataset in a Customer Information Control System (CICS) instance intended for a target application;
• and
• when the dataset includes channel data and the channel data includes a container holding credential data:
• extracting the credential data from the credential container and authenticate the credential data;
• removing the credential container from the channel;
• and
• passing the received dataset to the target application.