CICS

Understanding the Nuances of Database Systems on the IBM Z Mainframe

Craig Mullins looks at the characteristics that make mainframe databases unique, and how understanding them is key to database management

z/OS and Friends: Rich Functionality Is What CICS Is All About—Then and Now

Joe Gulla traces the evolution of the Customer Information Control System (CICS), harkening back to its first release and providing a comprehensive accounting of its modern-day application development capabilities

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z/OS and Friends: CICS Changing With the Times While Serving Longstanding Applications

Joe Gulla explains how the Customer Information Control System (CICS) relates to the programmer experience, and how it has evolved to handle growing workloads while embracing web services and new languages like Java

5 Modern Technologies for IBM Z ‘Optimization’

Kyndryl’s Pat Stanard and Brenno Oliveira explore the tools that are enhancing the mainframe’s capabilities and demonstrating the community’s commitment to innovation

The Triumphant Return of Centralized Systems

Greg Szabo on his long mainframe career and still loving what he does. (There's also a quick lesson on Canadian geography.)

The Comprehensive Beginners’ Guide to AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the hottest topic in the tech world today. But what is AI, really? And what are its implications? AI really started in the 1950s with Alan Turing and later the Dartmouth Conference. You can read more details here. IBM’s Deep Blue computer beating the reigning world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, […]

On the Mainframe and a Changing, Challenging IT World

Joe Winchester of IBM Hursley and Reg Harbeck engage in a discussion and debate on ISPF, molecular biology and the cello

Performance Implications for CICS Applications Using COBOL Version 6

Rocket Software’s Ezriel Gross highlights a methodology for CICS problem analysis and performance tuning—and shares how it led to a 92% savings in CPU for a heavily used transaction

Why Ansible Is Emerging as a Top Automation Tool for Mainframes

Mainframe sites used to be like small factories in terms of the number of people that were needed to keep the machine running. There were lots of operators who spent their time feeding in card decks and changing tapes on the tape drives. There were systems programmers and application programmers, and a whole host of […]