1. A method comprising: receiving, on a hardware computing platform, a dataset from a first Customer Information Control System (CICS) application executing on the hardware computing platform 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, populating a container of the channel with credential data to authenticate the dataset within the second CICS region; and forwarding 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.