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There was a couple of problems reported of user having a problem logging in. To attempt fixing the problem I've changed the whole loggin system. You can now loggin with a userid or your email. Then I've added a check to see if you have cookies disabled. If you're browsers cookies are disabled, you will experience loggin problems.

Thank you.

Ian

I've upgraded CICSWorld.com this weekend. There are still a few functions that must be fixed and updated and I will get to them soon. A few new function will be added and some other unused ones will be removed. If there is something you would like to see, feel free to let me know.

The "IBM Announcements" is suppose to be a spinning tag cloud. It works in Firefox but not always in IE. I'm still looking into that.

Thank you.
Ian

It's as old as the moon landings, but IBM's real-time transaction system, CICS, is still in use on the majority of all mainframes

While most anniversary celebrations this month have centred around man’s first steps on the moon, IBM is celebrating another 40th birthday - that of its Customer Information Control System (CICS).

CICS, released by IBM on 8 July 1969, was one of the first three products for which it levied a software licence charge that saw it charge for software licences. The transaction management system was designed for rapid, high-volume online processing, and now runs on 90 percent of the world’s mainframes, handling in excess of 30 billion transactions per day.

With an installed base made up mostly of financial services Fortune 500 firms, CICS is used in banking and insurance applications, ATM systems and many other types of interactive or industrial production control systems running on IBM z/OS and z/VSE (Virtual Storage Extended) mainframe operating systems (OS).

Nick Garrod, IBM CICS Transaction Server worldwide marketing manager told eWEEK Europe another reason for marking the product’s fourth decade is its UK heritage, having been developed at IBM Hursley in Hampshire, Europe's largest Software Development lab.

Read the complete News Article at eWeek Europe here: link

NEON zPRIMETM SHAKES UP MAINFRAME MARKET

Recent launch of disruptive software product ignites tidal wave of attention from scores of the world’s largest mainframe users; hundreds attend webinar to learn more

SUGAR LAND, Texas – July 16, 2009 – NEON Enterprise Software is responding to a massive wave of interest over a newly-released software product called NEON zPrime that saves mainframe users millions of dollars in IT costs by realizing the full potential of IBM System z specialty processors.

NEON zPrime enables more than half of IBM System z workloads to run on IBM’s specialty processors, which have no usage charge

SUGAR LAND, TX. – June 30, 2009 – NEON Enterprise Software today announced immediate availability of NEON zPrime, a proprietary software product that dramatically reduces the cost of mainframe computing. NEON zPrime will save mainframe users millions of dollars in IT costs by taking full advantage of IBM System z specialty processors.