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ALSO CALLED: Customer Information Control System
DEFINITION: CICS (Customer Information Control System) is an online transaction processing (OLTP) program from IBM that, together with the COBOL programming language, has formed over the past several decades the most common set of tools for building customer transaction applications in the world of large enterprise mainframe computing. A great number of the legacy applications still in use are COBOL/CICS applications.  … 
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CICS White Papers (View All Report Types)
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Adding Business Value With Cross-Platform Solutions: Linux running on IBM Servers
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper is based on research data collected at a dozen customer sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all with mixed server platforms, to find the technical and business outcomes from deploying cross-platform Linux solutions on IBM servers. This paper presents the key findings of a return on investment (ROI) analysis.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009


BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization.
Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009


Leading Virtualization 2.0: How Intel is Driving Virtualization Beyond Consolidation Into a Solution for Maximizing Business Agility Within the Enterprise
sponsored by Insight & Intel
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


Save Money on Mainframe Hardware and Software: Five Simple Steps to Managing MIPS
sponsored by Compuware Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009


SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE! M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 SERVER ARCHITECTURE
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Sun SPARC® Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with many of the benefits of traditional mainframes - without the associated cost, complexity, or vendor lock-in.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


Whose Fault is it Anyway? Using Compuware Abend-AID to Diagnose DB2 and WebSphere MQ Problems
sponsored by Compuware Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how you can leverage existing Abend-AID capabilities to simplify problem resolution even in these increasingly complex systems. Read this paper to learn more about diagnosing DB2 and WebSphere MQ problems with Compuware Abend-AID.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

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CICS DEFINITION (continued): …  Using the application programming interface (API) provided by CICS, a programmer can write programs that communicate with online users and read from or write to customer and other records (orders, inventory figures, customer data, and so forth) in a database (usually referred to as "data sets") using CICS facilities rather than IBM's access methods directly. Like other transaction managers, CICS can ensure that transactions are completed and, if not, undo partly completed transactions so that the integrity of data records is maintained. IBM markets or supports a CICS product for OS/390, UNIX, … 
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