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| | CICS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | CICS is available for other operating systems, notably i5/OS, OS/2, and as the closely related IBM TXSeries software on AIX, Windows, and Linux, among others. | | | On large IBM zSeries and System z9 servers, CICS easily supports thousands of transactions per second, making it a mainstay of enterprise computing. | | | Originally developed in the United States, CICS development shifted to IBM's programming labs in Hursley, United Kingdom, where work continues today. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS
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| | CICS Training CICS Courses CICS Application Development SYS-ED SYSED |
| | We worked on several sizable first generation CICS projects, when the source code and program logic was available; it no longer is. This knowledge provides us with a unique insight to explain and draw diagrams which teach why the software works or in some case doesn’t work as it should. | | | Our 30+ years as CICS consultants provides the historical perspective and the IBM mainframe systems software skillset to teach a new generation of IT personnel. | | | Bottom line, our “educational consultancy” courses are essential to maintaining an existing CICS system, retrofitting utilities and integrating CICS to web enablement technologies.Our experienced instructors specialize in using real-life programs and design problems. |
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http://www.sysed.com/ADs/CICSAd.htm
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| | CICS Curriculum |
| | This lecture-only course presents an overview of CICS and its role in the data processing environment. | | | This course teaches how to code advanced CICS application commands in a COBOL program. | | | Using a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, this course teaches the design and development of transactions using command level CICS. |
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http://www.bpgtraining.com/cics.html
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| | MacKinney Systems - Data recovery quickly and correctly - CICS/Forward Recovery System |
| | CICS' journal facility provides the data, but it is each installation's responsibility to have computer disaster recovery plans with recovery programs for each file which CICS updates. | | | To identify which data is on a particular CICS Journal file, a CHECK (or scan) may be made where no data is moved, but a report is generated detailing the contents of the journal file. | | | All you must do is use our JCL to run our CICS/FRS program and specify the files to be recovered. |
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http://www.mackinney.com/products/cics/cics_frs.htm
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| | Q&A: An insider's view of CICS' development |
| | Yelavich: CICS was supporting [technology] before its time. | | | In 1967 and 1968, IBM was looking for a good sample program to show customers how to implement such a customer information system. | | | The early releases of CICS assumed real storage and did things above and beyond the operating system to get the most efficient use out of real storage. |
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http://searchcio.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid10_gci1006618,00.html
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| | Robert Harris - CICS |
| | He joined IBM and CICS Development around the time of CICS 2.1.1 and has developed or designed code for all subsequent CICS releases. | | | He is especially known for the development of the FEPI emulation component and has written a book on this topic. | | | In his spare time he writes code snippets showing how CICS can be used in unusual situations and distributes these in CICS SupportPacs. |
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http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExpertBio/0,289623,sid10_cid447693,00.html
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| | CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) Curriculum - Datatrain Online e-Learning / Computer Based Training |
| | Programmers who need to be skilled in Application Programming in the CICS environment, using the Command Level Programming Interface. | | | Identify the basic internal control structures of the CICS environment and the inherent differences between tasks, programs, and transactions. | | | Load and reference application tables in main memory and obtain system and task related information for use in the application program. |
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http://cics.mainframe-training.de
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| | Murach's CICS Desk Reference |
| | But you’ll also find new material, like 30 more CICS commands, the macros you need for creating HTML documents from BMS mapsets, and guidelines for designing and writing CICS programs so the user interface can easily be changed without changing the business logic. | | | Units 1 and 2 summarize some design and programming guidelines for CICS programs. | | | If you adhere to these methods, you will work more productively, your programs will run more efficiently, and your programs will be easier to debug and maintain. |
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http://www.murach.com/books/cdrf/index.htm
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| | Requesting CICS Resources |
| | 6.5 The CICS user community is encouraged to communicate software or hardware environment changes that will result in obsolete resource definitions. | | | Although file DDNAMES should follow the PPM, it should be noted that full dataset names for files residing on MVS DASD must be in strict accordance with Standard 4423(Standard Two-character Agency/Department Abbreviations and Their Use in Naming Conventions for the DISC Computer Center). | | | Objects such as transactions, programs, maps, and files are some examples of required definitions. |
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http://da.state.ks.us/disc/pubs/ppms/p4210_03.htm
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| | CICS Performance Toolkit |
| | All the tools have been developed to work in the 'real world', by practising systems programmers, and they've all been tried and tested and used successfully in working installations. | | | The code is included in the zipped file, in ASCII text format, to make it easy to access (getting it out of an Acrobat file is not simple!). | | | A simple program to monitor CICS task storage* |
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http://www.xephon.com/toolkits/cicsperftoolkit.html
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| | CICS Tran-o-Service REXX |
| | REXX for CICS (R4C) has its own Application Development Environment (ADE) with CICS based Editor and VSAM-based REXX File Structure (RFS). | | | The EXECIO example to read CICS temporary storage is particularly informative. | | | R4C's RFS is a hierarchical file system logically analogous to what you see on Unix, windows, OS/2 and, yes, web Universal Resource Locators (URL's). |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci790670,00.html
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| | Liaison |
| | The CiCS liaison staff will also provide advice to members of user departments as to the optimal use of IT facilities for teaching, research and administration. | | | We provide information, advice and guidance on the CiCS Managed Desktop Service and the future of computing at Sheffield University in general. | | | Liaison staff will help departments formulate departmental IT teaching programmes. |
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/services/liaison
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| | REXX for CICS - IBM Software |
| | With REXX for CICS, it is now practical to perform end-user computing, prototyping and application development directly within the CICS environment. | | | REXX is a high-level language that is natural to use and frees the programmer from unnecessary detail. | | | REXX programs tend to be shorter and easier to follow than programs written in other languages. |
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http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/products/rexx
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| | IBM gives CICS a boost |
| | The CICS VSAM Transparency tool can be used to develop and implement strategies intended to modernise their legacy VSAM-based environments to better work with database systems such as DB2. | | | The tools include the CICS business Event Publisher for MQSeries Version 1.2, CICS VSAM Copy Version 1.1, CICS VSAM Transparency Version 1.1, CICS Performance Analyser 1.3, and the IBM Session Manager 1.2. | | | Version 1.3 of the new CICS Performance Analyser can carry out the offline performance analysis, tuning and capacity planning. |
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http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=132380&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=9&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
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| | IBM Redbooks CICS Interdependency Analyzer |
| | CICS IA system files; RLS, FOR, individual files | | | He has 15 years of experience working as a technical support specialist with IBM software products. | | | Next, we introduce the Collector, the Reporter component, and the query interface, then offer information about working with them. |
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http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246458.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: CICS |
| | Being familiar with other online programming software (IMS, ADS/O), I found the information on CICS to be so smothered in useless verbage that it was difficult to read. | | | The book is kind of chatty and includes lots of Kirk's philosophy of programming. | | | Might be ok for a beginner who's never used any other communications software. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0894354280
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| | IBM Redbooks Workload Managment for Web Access to CICS |
| | In this IBM Redbook we first provide an introduction to Web-enabling CICS, followed by a brief overview of the building-blocks that provide the backbone of IBM& workload management technologies. | | | The Internet seems all-pervasive, and now it is in your CICS systems. | | | Following this, we explain how to use these components to design a load balancing solution for whichever CICS Web-enablement strategy you have chosen. |
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http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246118.html
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Mainframe: IBM: Software |
| | HandM Systems Software - Develops and maintains mainframe software with a specialization in CICS networks. | | | B I Moyle Associates - BIM provides VSE/ESA, z/OS and CICS software products, VSE/ESA, z/VM and CICS systems programming consulting services, and computer time. | | | Gary Bergman Associates - Information on their Advanced Debugging System (ADS) for CICS software, as well as some CICS, especially user group, and z/OS links. |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Mainframe/IBM/Software
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| | UF CNS CICS Transaction Dump Processing, Debugging, and Problem Determination |
| | However, CICS allows the system programmer to specify a "runaway task time interval" via the SIT (System Initialization Table) ICVR option, in milliseconds. | | | There is a bit of both art and science involved in dump analysis, and the notes provided here are possibly only one of many different ways to diagnose the example problems. | | | This could indicate a "wild branch" or an exception in a CICS module or an exception in an external resource manager like DB2 or the CICS Socket Interface. |
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http://cics.nerdc.ufl.edu/trandump.html
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| | Command/CICS - from Advanced Software Products Group, Inc. |
| | Command/CICS is a systems software product which has been designed to provide a migration path for CICS from a Macro-Level to a Command-Level environment. | | | There is absolutely no programming and a minimal amount of set-up work. | | | Data Security - Storage and Capacity - System Management - CICS Tools - Application Programming |
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http://www.aspg.com/cics.htm
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| | CICS Central |
| | This is a great book on the history of the software industry. | | | The author goes on to say 'If this book serves no other purpose, I hope that it will at least provide a corrective to the common misconception that Microsoft is the center of the software universe around which all else revolves.' | | | "Any book that says 'CICS is much more important than Microsoft Windows' gets my vote. |
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http://www.cicscentral.com
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| | IBM Incorporates New Web Services Technology for CICS Product Releases Industry News News - WebServices.Org |
| | Following on the heels of the 35th anniversary of CICS earlier this year, this announcement enables businesses to fully exploit the agility of an on demand operating environment. | | | Tightly coupled, standards based solutions such as the Java Connector Architecture (JCA), and loosely coupled Web services solutions coexist to fully exploit the agility of an on demand operating environment. | | | Pricing is per processor or unit-based on z/OS |
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http://www.webservices.org/index.php/ws/content/view/full/48879
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| | Cics |
| | For just $24.95, you learn the secrets to changing to a computer career, including 5 steps to financial freedom using IT skills. | | | Find cics at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! | | | Find, compare and buy Network Management Tools and other Computer Software products at Shopping.com. |
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http://www.garagedeveloper.com/cics.htm
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| | Shadow z/Services - CICS Region |
| | By working within the mainframe CICS environment and using any one of these approaches to access legacy code, enterprise organizations enjoy many benefits not available with a screen-based solution including: | | | 3270 Bridge / Linkable Bridge – Another facility of CICS, 3270 Bridge intercepts data flow into and out of a CICS transaction before a 3270 data stream is generated as output or expected as input. | | | In fact, the Shadow z/Services for CICS DPL option provides the best performance metrics when building business components or Web services from existing CICS programs. |
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http://www.neonsys.com/Shadow/shadow_zServices-CICS_Region.asp
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| | Introduction to CICS Home Page |
| | CICS (pronounced "KIX" or "KICKS" by many, including the IBM CICS developers in Hursley, England) is sometimes referred to as a DB/DC (Data Base/Data Communication) system and recently celebrated its 27th birthday. | | | In these sessions, a brief introduction to CICS will be provided as well as a discussion of the use of the COBOL programming language in CICS. | | | CICS, Customer Information Control System, is the premier OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) product family from IBM. |
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http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~sfware/cop3121a.html
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| | COBOL (New): CICS and the New COBOL |
| | This course is for end users managers and CICS programmers. | | | Presents a brief discussion of general topics to consider when migrating CICS programs to COBOL. | | | Describe the features of COBOL for CICS programming |
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http://www.dpec.com/catalog/cob302.htm
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| | CICS Administration Guide |
| | Appendix D. Configuring CICS for a DBCS/MBCS environment | | | Effect of an unavailable file manager at CICS startup | | | Appendix B. Procedures for CICS system management using CICS commands |
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http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jhu/DOCS/TX4.2/html/erzhab/erzhab02.htm
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| | CA-CICS Appreciation |
| | Explain the role of CICS in a distributed environment. | | | Describe the CICS functions available for program development. | | | An introduction is given to the growing family of CICS server and client products which are available. |
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http://www.circle-us.com/ca.htm
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| | alphaWorks : SOAP for CICS : Requirements |
| | Platforms: CICS must be configured to support the Language Environment run time. | | | The required functions are contained in Language Environment for OS/390 2 R10 (with the PTF for APAR 65085) or above. | | | A tool that allows integration with SOAP messaging to new and existing CICS Transaction Server applications. |
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http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/soap4cics/requirements
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| | Customer Information Control System |
| | CICS, pronounced as "kicks", is the better known acronym for CustomerInformationControlSystem, BigBlue IBM's general-purpose Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) software. | | | Q1 Any one knows why JavaLanguage and CICS do not fit well? | | | CICS belongs to a class of systems software known as TransactionProcessingMonitors; in the latter part of the 20th century, it was a de facto standard for medium and larger Enterprises, due to scalability and efficiency. |
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http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CustomerInformationControlSystem
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| | SwTech.com - IBM CICS |
| | A Java SDK from Blue Lobster Software that provides a direct (non-gateway) interface to CICS transactions from Java. | | | CICS for AIX Version 2 - A Technical Overview | | | Support this site by buying one of our Recommended Books |
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http://www.swtech.com/tp/cics
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| | Abstract: Get a Kick out of CICS with TransactionVision |
| | Learn how TransactionVision can automatically and non-intrusively track your business transactions across your entire business process and deep into CICS to help you achieve faster problem resolution, optimized capacity planning and improved service level monitoring. | | | Transaction tracking, monitoring and analysis provide a methodology to address these questions, and many others. | | | This means that CICS applications would then be part of a long business transaction process that crosses multiple technologies. |
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http://www.bristol.com/transactionvision/ondemand/cics.htm
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| | IBM Redbooks CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA: CICS Web Support |
| | CICS Web Support is an effective solution for the VSE/ESA user community. | | | It provides the guidance you need to design new solutions and upgrade existing solutions. | | | It is a powerful 2-tier Web enablement solution that is easy to plan for and simple to implement. |
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http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245997.html
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| | CICS Internet Connectivity |
| | The biggest problem faced by a CICS/Internet architect is the number of possible ways to connect CICS to the Internet. | | | The following section outlines possible ways to connect CICS to the Internet. | | | There are three ways to connect CICS systems to the Internet: |
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http://www.solent-consultancy.com/cicsweb.htm
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| | MacKinney Systems - Enterprise Software for z/OS and VSE - CICS/SignOn |
| | Because CICS/SignOn secures CICS and nothing more, your systems staff doesn't have to waste time dealing with issues and features that don't have anything to do with CICS. | | | CICS/SignOn results in a much more secure CICS environment. | | | Users do not have to be retrained, and applications do not need to be changed. |
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http://www.mackinney.com/products/cics/cics_signon.htm
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| | CICS Administration Reference |
| | It can be up to 128 bytes long. | | | A 30-byte ASCII text attribute describing the resource. | | | that should be used by CICS when starting the TCP protocol. |
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http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jhu/DOCS/TX4.2/html/erzhac/erzhac10.htm
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| | UF CNS CICS Home Page |
| | Welcome to the CICS home page at the Computing and Networking Services Data Center | | | Do you register for classes at UF or UNF using a telephone, a terminal, or a personal computer? | | | The information contained here in CNS's CICS web site is intended to aid both the users of our CICS systems and the programming staffs who develop the applications that run in the CICSplex. |
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http://www.cics.ufl.edu
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| | CICS - DEBUGGING WORKSHOP |
| | This workshop will give the student a comprehensive immersion into CICS program development. | | | Demonstrate a considered approach to design and coding issues | | | Write robust CICS code and be practised at diagnosing problems which occur during test. |
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http://www.cics-mq.com/capw00syn.htm
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| | Felgall Mainframe - CICS ASKTIME |
| | These fields contain either the date and time at which the current CICS task started or the date and time at which the latest ASKTIME command was executed whichever is the more recent. | | | CURRENT_TIME will then contain the current time in the format hh:mm:ss. | | | Question:In CICS Mainframe, when I issue EXEC CICS ASKTIME TIME command, it is not returning me anything. |
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http://www.felgall.com/cics7.htm
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| | CICS-COBOL Upgrade Support |
| | The IBM document information and pertinent sections are included: | | | Possible run time issues (storage protection exceptions) with OS/VS COBOL load modules documented if migrating from a pre-CICS/ESA 3.3 environment | | | Following is a summary of the level of COBOL support for the various versions of CICS Transaction Server. |
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http://www.princesoftware.com/pages/cics_cobol.html
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| | Computing.Net - CICS Operator Commands |
| | I've looked every where.The IBM site had tons of geeky programming how to's, but no meat and pototoes to get the tasks done. | | | I have the same problem as Barrett - but I cant find any IBM mvs forum that can help me with CICS commands and how about CA-1-7-11 | | | Use following form to reply to current message: |
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http://www.computing.net/openvms/wwwboard/forum/8.html
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| | CICS and Enterprise JavaBeans |
| | Finally, the paper considers future work and challenges for CICS in this area. | | | This paper presents an overview of the EJB architecture and describes the technical strategy and design approach for the EJB capability that is being delivered in the latest release of the Customer Information Control System (CICS | | | Significant investments have been made to develop it as a high-end server for e-business applications, while maintaining and developing its capabilities as the world's leading transaction processing monitor for customers' mission-critical applications. |
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http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/401/bainbridge.html
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| | CiCS News Page |
| | CiCS is pleased to announce that a new Managed Desktop Service, based on Windows XP is being installed in all student computing rooms for the start of term. | | | newA series of frequently asked questions have been complied about the Managed Desktop Service and are now available on the CiCS website at <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/faqs/mandesk_faq">http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/faqs/mandesk_faq</a> The frequently asked questions will be regularly reviewed and updated and users are encouraged to consult them if they experience problems with this service. | | | CiCS news items will appear on this page |
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http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffield/road/Classic/article/8/jsp/Render.jsp?type=xml&deptid=331&artid=3751
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| | IBM Software - CICS family - Family Overview |
| | Delivers the Web support and 3270 bridge function to protect and extend your current investment in CICS, enabling you to implement robust, business critical e-business and client/server enterprise solutions across multiple hardware platforms and operating systems | | | This version strengthens application development capabilities and extend CICS applications to a Services Orientated Architecture and provides an efficient and effective environment for applications written in COBOL, PL/I, C, C++ and Java. | | | CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a family of application servers and connectors that provides industrial-strength, online transaction management and connectivity for mission-critical applications. |
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http://www.ibm.com/software/ts/cics
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| | Mainframes.com - CICS |
| | In other words, CICS cannot be upgraded first. | | | CICSPlex has to either be upgraded concurrently with CICS or upgraded first. | | | Verify all details or suggestions with the appropriate vendor and / or vendor's manuals. |
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http://www.mainframes.com/cics.htm
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| | Consul - CICS interface: zToolkit |
| | Consul zToolkit, or simply zToolkit, provides a flexible, easy-to-use interface for administrating the RACF security environment from a CICS (Customer Information Control System from IBM) terminal. | | | The Application Programming Interface (API) can be used from CICS programs to retrieve information from RACF profiles, including but not limited to the user's own profile, and to issue RACF commands. | | | The current methods provided by RACF only provide a limited level of granularity. |
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http://www.consul.com/Content.asp?id=122
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