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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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- System z software working in harmony for today and tomorrows SOA enterprise : How WebSphere, DB2, CICS, IMS and WMQ interoperate
- Learn why three IBM clients have chosen the reliability, availability, scalability and security that a CICS Transactional Server can provide when combined with IBM middleware products. This white paper will show you how CICS supports the latest SOA.
- White papers 2008-03-01
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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