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CICS

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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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Podcast: The Mainframe - Best Practices 2009
sponsored by CA
PODCAST: In this videocast on 2009 best practices learn about consolidation, the evolution of hub and moderization of legacy mainframe applications.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2009
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Best Practices for Mainframe 2009
sponsored by CA
VIDEO: In this videocast watch expert Wayne Kernochan talk about consolidation of more than 20 applications onto the mainframe, global demand of business transactions in IT leading to long term cost structures and rapid changes in the environment.
Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 11 Jun 2009
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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE! M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 SERVER ARCHITECTURE: Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
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: 01 Jul 2008
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How to get mainframe MIPS under control: Tips for shrinking your mainframe processing costs
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
PODCAST: Today's data center pros need to cut costs wherever possible, and the mainframe presents significant opportunities to do so. This expert podcast explains how to use specialty processors, load balancing, and compression database software for this task.
Posted: 03 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 03 Jun 2009
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Mainframes are Still Mainstream
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Organizations with significant processing requirements continue to maintain many of their applications on mainframes. Taking advantage of new capabilities in the mainframe market that proactively monitor and automate to maintain high availability, continuous operations and proactive problem management, will result in profitable business benefits.
Posted: 30 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2007
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Bringing New Generations into the Mainframe Environment
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Even with solid reliability and scalable processing power, mainframes require skilled staff for application development and system support. So as baby-boomer mainframers move into later career stages, employers may legitimately worry about their availability, motivation, and health. This paper explores four long-term organizational strategies.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 28 Apr 2009
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Mainframe Security Risk and Compliance: CA Mainframe Security
sponsored by CA
ANALYST REPORT: Clearly the world of IT has changed considerably over the past 25 years with the rise of distributed computing and the profound effect the internet and World Wide Web have had on the way that we communicate day by day. This Bloor research paper highlights the the mainframe computer, a cornerstone of IT that remains constant despite these changes.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008
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Producing MAINVIEW Performance Graphs with MAINVIEW Batch and Excel
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST: By combining the use of the 'Export' command with MAINVIEW Batch processing, BMC MAINVIEW keeps a wealth of historical data that can be used to produce performance graphs for IT management.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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BMC SQL Performance for DB2: Two Minute Explainer Video
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST: Inefficient DB2 applications can waste MIPS and cost an organization thousands while mainframe application demand continually grows. Learn how BMC's SQL Performance solution for DB2 can reduce CPU MIPS, improve DB2 application performance, correct problems before they occur, and enable staff to work on more productive tasks.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Best Practices for Event Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST: This BMC webcast will present a methodology for identifying the metrics that have the most impact on critical business applications and for creating exception events to notify of critical application problems.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Controlling Explosive New Workload Growth:Trends and Best Practices from the BMC 2008 Mainframe Survey Results
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST: Join Bob Thomas (z/Journal), Mike Moser (BMC), and Neil Blagrave (BMC) as they discuss trends in new workload adoption and share ideas and best practices for getting the most value from resources while continuing to push out more new and varied processing!
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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BMC Database Administration Solution for DB2 z/OS
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.
Posted: 18 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009
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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
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Getting the Most from System z: Redefining Mainframe Economics with the Specialty Engines
sponsored by DataDirect Shadow
WHITE PAPER: In the current market, insurers-and all companies, are looking for ways to cut costs and to be more efficient. This report is a high-level survey of some vendors that are known to be helping clients.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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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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