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They slowly wheel the old man up the stairs into the Impact residence. Inside it is bustling with activity. People laughing and talking loud over each other while children chase each other up and down the massive stairwell. They settle grandpa "Kicks" in the living room in front of the television. His daughter seems concerned that he will be in a separate room from the rest of the family. "Now Dad - are you sure that you will be ok here?". "Yeah I'm fine - stop fussing over me!" he replies with frustration in his voice.

The age poll has served to confirm my concern about the aging workforce and the effect of that on the future of the mainframe.

I watched with interest what discussions the poll provoked on the lists. It certainly seems that there are a lot of valuable people working on the mainframe. There are people with years -nee decades - of computing experience and heaps of wisdom to share.

I recently realized that many CICS people still don't know what power they have available with the CICS Web support.

As such I decided to develop a few articles with code to demonstrate to CICS people what is possible .

The first is to use relative links in CICS.

I really hope this will cause people to look afresh at CICS for new application development.

Corneel.

IBM Impact 2007 - IBM® Impact 2007 is just around the corner, May 20-25, in Orlando, Florida. This is IBM’s premier conference on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), WebSphere®, Messaging, and CICS®. With over 325 technical sessions, this event represents a great opportunity for you to get the very latest product information, deep dives on the latest technologies, and much more from the IBM labs for you to sharpen your skills and stay on top of your technical game. [CICS News!]

I've added a Football World Cup Tip(Prediction) game for those interested in playing around with it. I will keep the scores updated as much as possible. So here is some CICS Worldcup fun. (I have no idea how Football and CICS can be related and will gladly accept some suggestions :-))