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Daylight Saving Time changes effect on CICS Transaction Server

Daylight Saving Time changes effect on CICS Transaction Server

Abstract
For many countries Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes the last Sunday in October or the first Sunday in November. You would like to understand the impact that the DST time change has on CICS® Transaction Server. You would also like to know when DST will begin and end in your country, and the action that you will need to take.

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CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS

CICS VSAM Recovery recovers CICS and batch VSAM data following physical or logical corruption

CICS VSAM Recovery V4.3 can quickly recover CICS and batch VSAM data after physical or logical corruption, improving CICS availability, and with reducing compliance risks.

CICS Tools family

Overview

The IBM CICS Tools family helps to increase business flexibility and development efficiency by accelerating deployment of new CICS workloads on System z and streamlining CICS version-to-version migration efforts.

New face of CICS ( CICS EXPLORER)

CICS Explorer information

Here are some sources of information related to CICS Explorer.

CICS Explorer flyer - two-sided datasheet - (See attached file: CICS Explorer flyer Aug 5 2008.pdf)
New CICS Explorer web page http://ibm.com/cics/explorer
Special CICS eNews edition featuring the CICS Explorer - http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/news
CICS Explorer customer deck - (See attached file: CICS Explorer customer deck V1a.pdf)
Encourage yor customers to join the CICS Explorer beta program now - for information, contact

EXEC CICS Assembler using the new z10 instructions

On March 14, 2008 z390 v1.4.01 was released with support for 226 new IBM z10 mainframe assembler instructions. Now you can code and unit test EXEC CICS assembler modules using these new instructions on Windows XP/Vista or Linux and port programs to a z10 mainframe later. You can download the z390 v1.4.01 version from www.z390.org. For an overview of the z390 CICS support view the latest SHARE presentation here:

SHARE z390 Assembler and Emulator Presentations

turn off cics screen

I have been tasked to turn off cics screens. Can anyone help?

What language will your next new CICS application be developed in?

Natural/Adabas
43% (81 votes)
COBOL.
28% (54 votes)
Combination of Languages
7% (13 votes)
Assembler.
6% (11 votes)
No language - no new development on CICS
5% (10 votes)
Java
4% (8 votes)
PL/I.
4% (7 votes)
C/C++
2% (3 votes)
Other Languages
2% (3 votes)
Total voters: 190

When will the next new CICS application be developed in your enterprise?

Currently in development.
80% (47 votes)
We are not developing new applications on CICS.
14% (8 votes)
In six months.
5% (3 votes)
In a year or more.
2% (1 vote)
Total voters: 59

CICS TS V3.2 3rd Party Software Compatibility List

Here is a short list of Vendor packages and their version that are compatibility with CICS TS V3.2.
At this time the list only contains version for software I had experience with.
Please leave a comment or let me know if you have a package you can add to the list.

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