Whitepapers

IBM CICS Transaction Server, which can be used in modern service oriented architecture (SOA) enterprise solutions, is increasingly being selected by customers due to its maturity and overall excellent performance characteristics.

 

This is a newly published Whitepaper that I have just finished writing with the help of an IBM colleague of mine, Tim Sipples. It is aimed at information technology (IT) architects, project mangers, and other decision makers who are considering their options for new IT projects. It focuses on the merits of deploying new applications to the System z platform, and in particular, to an environment managed by CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS).

Running CICS® on Open Transaction Environment (OTE) provides a real performance boost, but until recently, only CICS and DB2® applications could benefit. With CICS Transaction Server V3.1 enhancements, you have greater flexibility for more applications to run on open TCBs. -Improve the performance of C/C++ applications using the XPLink feature of z/OS® -Use more simultaneous SSL connections -Migrate any hot-pooling (HPJ) compiled Java™ program objects to run in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM™) -Invoke more than one Java program within the same CICS task using the CICS program-link mechanism