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It's been awhile since my last update, post or blog entry. Things have been a little bit hectic for me but I will make a concerted effort to try and keep things rolling here. There are a couple of improvements that needs to be done on the site itself. For instance currently the news feeds are not searchable and I'm working on a fix to include all news feed items in a site search. (Doing a Google search will show the news feed items on the site but a site search won't)

How do you access you're CICS data? Is it thru plain old BMS and a 3270 terminal? Or perhaps you are using SOAP or HTTP via CWS?
Whatever it is you are doing, or planning to do, do not convert you're BMS maps in CICS to XML before presenting it to the enduser.
If you do do that, put a call in to you're legal department and ask them to take a look at
U.S. Patent Number 6,981,257 B2.

Here is an abstract of the patent:

Effect of day-light savings time changes on CICS - Following the MVS™ or z/OS® time change for day-light saving time, there is a time difference between the z/OS and CICS® messages. You expected CICS® to pick up the MVS time change at the next midnight boundary. But it did not, the CICS time was still off by an hour. You would like to know why CICS did not to pick up the time correctly.