cics
RSS cicsIndustrial and Commercial Bank of China Centralized CICS Monitoring
White Paper The bank runs OS/390 using DB2 databases on a CICS network. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is the largest bank in the People's Republic of China (PRC) with over 560,000 employees and annual profits of US $416.7 million. [16 May 2008]
Exposing a CICS Program as a Web Service Using IBM Rational Application Developer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the J2C Tooling in RAD
White Paper This paper will start with a simple CICS program, and show how basic wizards can be used to expose the program as a Web service running on IBM WebSphere Application Server. This will be useful to people wishing to use their legacy CICS applications... [09 May 2008]
Tuning Continuous JVMs in CICS TS for z/OS V2.3 and V3.1
White Paper Multiple JVMs can share a single cache of class files that have already been loaded, including some that have been optimized by compilation. This cache is shared by all worker JVMs. The size of this cache is controlled by the JVMCCSIZE SIT parameter. [30 Apr 2008]
SAP Transaction Banking: Measurements of IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS
White Paper According to some sources, core banking today is mainly done on mainframes - mostly as custom developed CICS or IMS applications. Bank posting and balancing, often called core banking, are crucial to all commercial banks. [30 Apr 2008]
Customizing NetView for z/OS and OMEGAMON XE Workspaces in Tivoli Enterprise Portal
White Paper Coupled with products from the OMEGAMON XE suite, one can now monitor availability and performance of the z/OS systems, SNA and IP networks and major applications such as DB2, CICS and IMS from one easy-to-use interface; the Tivoli Enterprise... [30 Apr 2008]
Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System
White Paper It seems a foregone conclusion that the days of CICS programming and big iron are soon to be far behind, right? IBM has seen growth in its System z mainframe business for six of the last nine quarters, according to IBM quarterly earnings statements. [26 Apr 2008]
OptimalJ Integration Mainframe Connectivity
White Paper This paper will focus on how OptimalJ enables integration with existing mainframe CICS TS and IMS/TM applications via JCA and JMS. The objective of the OptimalJ's Integration Model is to accelerate and reduce the complexity of integrating with... [10 Apr 2008]
Options for Integrating New Applications With Current Applications That Run on a Mainframe
White Paper Examples of mainframe applications include CICS and IMS transaction applications; modern applications include J2EE applications and some C++ applications. Senior developers, IT architects, and project managers frequently need to integrate existing... [09 Apr 2008]
SOAP Message Size Performance Considerations
White Paper This paper examines performance when using different SOAP message sizes in CICS Web Services. The paper also reviews a customer scenario, DanskeBank. It provides an overview of the bank's ATM system, and briefly discusses the IFX framework. [30 Oct 2007]
Designing and Programming CICS Applications: Programming the CICS Java Component
White Paper In this paper one will be using VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition to develop the CICS Java component together with the Enterprise Toolkit/390 (ET/390) that comes with it. The procedure is based on VisualAge for Java Version 2. [10 Oct 2007]
Ensure High Availability With BMC Mainframe Recovery Solutions
White Paper This briefing describes several unique and innovative techniques for improving availability for critical DB2, IMS, and CICS/VSAM applications. Maintaining high or even continuous availability is critical for many companies. [06 Jun 2007]
Java Virtual Machine Choices With CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 2 Release 3
White Paper CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 2, Release 3 (CICS TS 2.3) adds further support for Java. This paper outlines the improvements to Java support in CICS TS 2.3, and explains how individual CICS regions can be configured to match the needs of... [28 Apr 2007]
XML for the Enterprise: Providing an XML Interface to a CICS Application
White Paper With the advent of Web Services, users and owners of many mainframe applications that used to rely on just binary interfaces for communication have been trying to harness XML as a new means of information exchange. [28 Apr 2007]
IBM's CICS Transaction Server V3.1 Web Services Performance
White Paper The authors used one of the traditional CICS/DB2 workloads and explain an easy way to measure its performance. Then it looks at how the authors converted this to a Web services based architecture using the CICS Web Services Assistant (a CICS... [26 Apr 2007]
New CICS Support for Secure Sockets Layer
White Paper CICS Transaction Server has had support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) since Version 1 Release 3, but the support has been considerably enhanced in Version 3 Release 1. Many of the enhancements arise from exploitation of changes in the underlying z... [26 Apr 2007]
