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Gaining Insight Into Critical Enterprise Applications With IBM CICS and Business Events

The ability to detect events in IBM CICS application processing, and to emit those events for consumption in a variety of ways without making changes to the existing applications, opens up a number of new opportunities for businesses. Events from IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS allow processing within CICS...

Tags: IBM CICS, Enterprise Application, IBM Corp., Operational Planning, Utility Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Hardware, Software

White papers 2009-07-01

IBM Event Processing Solutions for Business Risk Management on System z With CICS and WebSphere Business Events

Managing business risk is an increasing requirement for enterprise lines of business and for IT departments. IT managers, solution architects, business analysts and IBM CICS specialists are often responsible for implementing governance and compliance solutions for enterprise business applications on the IBM System z platform. Compliance is ensuring that business...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Compliance, Risk Management, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-12-01

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

An introduction to the "human resources" component of the typical data processing center we've been exploring. by Paul Murphy

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Financial, Project Manager, Data-processing, Experience, IBM IMS, IBM DB2, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Business Experience, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-08-01

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

CICS and IMS, IBM's two of IBM's three original software products are still going strong - and so is the culture that adopted them in 1969. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Card, IBM Mainframe, Disk, Memory, Data-processing, Payroll, IBM IMS, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., GL, Mainframes, Operational Accounting, Data Centers, Payroll Solutions, Servers, Databases, Hardware, Finance, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-27

BMC MAINVIEW for CICS - 'WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS'

This webcast will provide information on the development direction of BMC MAINVIEW for CICS. This webcast will give a brief review of the features and changes that were implemented with BMC MAINVIEW for CICS Version 5.9. It will also review the new features and changes implemented with the BMC MAINVIEW...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., BMC MAINVIEW, IBM CICS, It Management, It service Management

Webcasts 2007-11-14

HostBridge Uses IBM Products to Integrate CICS Applications as Web Services

Most large organizations continue to rely on legacy systems that cannot easily be adapted to the Internet, and the lack of real-time integration makes it difficult to compete in today's market. HostBridge Technology, LLC, an integration software provider deployed IBM CICS Transaction Server and Rational Developer for System z as...

Tags: Web, Web Service, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., IBM CICS Transaction Server, Application Integration, C/C++, Hardware Upgrade, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Case studies 2007-11-01

Enhancing the Performance of IBM TXSeries CICS on HP-UX Through Program Caching

IBM's TXSeries implementation of CICS on HP-UX provides a high-performance transaction processing environment suitable for a wide range of mission critical uses. The product provides an application environment that is immediately recognizable by those familiar with CICS implementations on systems as diverse as IBM Mainframes to Intel - based Microsoft...

Tags: HP-UX, Performance, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

Service-Enable CICS and IMS Legacy Applications Using the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance

In this paper one explores scenarios for service-enabling CICS and IMS applications using different techniques. One learns important aspects to consider for service-enabling legacy applications, including determining the "Ambition level" and whether the legacy code can be reused and exposed as a service using a native service interface, adapter, or...

Tags: Legacy Application, IBM WebSphere, SOA, IBM IMS, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software

White papers 2007-10-30

IBM System z Tools for CICS SOA Development.

The realities of the twenty-first century exert conflicting pressures on organizations that build and deliver IT services. The lines of business say "more, more, more," while financial management says "less, less, less." This paper focuses on the challenges faced by the development and testing teams that are responsible for creating...

Tags: SOA, Tool, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Management, Team Management, Productivity, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Management

White papers 2007-10-01

IBM's CICS Transaction Server V3.1 Web Services Performance

This paper compares the performance of the same workload in 3270-based and Web service architectures. The authors used one of the traditional CICS/DB2 workloads and explain an easy way to measure its performance. Then it looks at how the authors converted this to a Web services based architecture using the...

Tags: Performance, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-01-24

IBM CICS Transaction Server V3.1 Web Services Performance

This paper compares the performance of the same workload in 3270-based and Web service architectures. The authors used one of the traditional CICS/DB2 workloads and explain an easy way to measure its performance. Then it looks at how it converted this to a Web services-based architecture using the CICS Web...

Tags: Performance, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-05-01

WebSphere for z/OS to CICS and IMS Connectivity Performance

This paper focuses on helping you understand the performance implications of the different connectivity options from WebSphere for IBM z/OS to CICS or IMS. For this paper, two options are selected and a measurement environment is created to simulate customer scenarios. For the CICS customers, tests are run with CICS...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Performance, IBM z/OS, IBM IMS, IBM CICS, Performance Management, SOAP, Utility Computing, Application Servers, Operating Systems, Servers, Middleware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2006-01-01

Integrating WebSphere Application Server and CICS Using the J2EE Connector Architecture

Much of the world's data is processed on mainframes, using the qualities of service of proven transaction servers such as IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS. Delivering access to new and existing CICS applications using standards-based interfaces is becoming a necessity as the organization moves toward becoming an On Demand...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Application Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM CICS, J2Ee, Application Servers, Java, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Programming Languages, Hardware

White papers 2006-01-01

Using JMS and WebSphere Application Server to Interact With CICS Over the MQ/CICS Bridge

This paper, and the associated code samples present an approach to invoking CICS transactions that are DPL-enabled use COMMAREAS using JMS running in a WebSphere Application Server. There may be other papers that have discussed this functionality, yet the approach shown here uses the RAD V6 tooling to significantly simplify...

Tags: JMS, IBM WebSphere, Application Server, Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM CICS, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2005-11-01

Exposing a CICS Program as a Web Service Using IBM Rational Application Developer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the J2C Tooling in RAD

IBM Rational Application Developer v6.0.0.1 provides new tooling to simplify the creation of J2EE applications that use the J2EE Connector Architecture to access applications running on legacy systems. This paper will start with a simple CICS program, and show how basic wizards can be used to expose the program as...

Tags: Developer, Web, RAD, Application Developer, Web Service, IBM CICS, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Application Servers, Hardware Upgrade, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Hardware

White papers 2005-10-18

Integrating CICS Using SOA and Web Services

Service-Oriented Architectures SOAs and Web services combine to provide an opportunity for organizations to reduce the costs and complexities of application integration inside the firewall and open up new possibilities for legacy applications to participate in eBusiness. This white paper explains how people can use them to integrate mainframe CICS...

Tags: Web, HostBridge Technology, Web Service, SOA, IBM CICS, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Application Integration, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2005-01-30

Just for CICS...

More interesting news out of Big Blue. IBM has just introduced a new version of its 35-year-old Customer Information Control System CICS transaction server to support Web services. The CICS (pronounced "kicks") system has traditionally enabled companies to collectively process billions of transactions per day, particularly for credit card applications....

Tags: Customer Information Control System

Blog posts 2004-12-02

Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004 Host-Initiated Processing

The webcast discusses Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004. It talks about innovative technologies, such as TI host-initiated processing. Host-initiated processing offers TCP/IP and SNA listeners that permit a computer running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to function as peers to IBM mainframe and AS/400 computers. For example, CICS programmers can call...

Tags: Microsoft Host Integration Server, Microsoft Corp., IBM CICS, Microsoft Windows, Mainframes, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Productivity, Tcp/Ip, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Extend SOA governance to all of IT? Why not?

Extend SOA governance to all of IT? Why not?Because not everything is SO"It never made sense to me why SOA should have one governance mechanism, while the rest of IT and the organization had something else."I agree, there shouldn't be multiple mechanisms. There should be just one--and it shouldn't be...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, SOA governance, Extend SOA governance, SOA, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need

Discussion threads 2009-03-05