CICS

Just joined...

Just joined the CICS World community so I'm looking forward to having a play around and trying to look at the features. Great to see there is a community out there that I can learn from.

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

Pry it from my cold dead fingers

I came across this article this morning. Unfortunately this seems to be the image problem CICS struggles with. We know it is not the technology - more often it is the people that holds on to the technology so tightly that they lose sight of the fact - the existing system that they "paid millions for" is not fulfilling the business need of the user.

Happy Cows

(The uncertain future of CICS part 2)

I saw this commercial on television the other day. The commercial was trying to convince the viewer that happy cows produce more milk and that happy cows come from California.

The slightly goofy series of commercials show the cows getting up to various antics because they are so happy...

So I started to wonder how happy CICS customers are lately.

Hursley Park

Take a peek at Hursley Park here!

Is COBOL like Oil?

(The uncertain future of CICS part 1)

The other day I was thinking about the future of CICS and what programming languages and technology we could be using in a few years time. Part of why I was musing about this was because of the age old problem of COBOL.

Web education continued.

Well here are the promised articles that show how to use the CICS web interface.

How to use URIMAPs and relative links:
URIMAP's and relative links.(cicswiki.org)

How to do web session management in CICS:
How do I do session management in CICS? (cicswiki.org)

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