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IBM Tools: CICS Performance Analyzer V1.2

IBM Tools: CICS Performance Analyzer V1.2

By: Eugene Deborin

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 15-JAN-2003

Insert Date: 29-OCT-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication is primarily intended for CICS Transaction Server V1.3 and V2.2 customers who plan to implement IBM CICS Performance Analyzer in order to produce a wide range of reports and extracts that will help to tune and manage CICS systems. We start with an overview of CICS-provided tools and utilities that help you gather and analyze performance data. We then introduce the CICS Performance Analyzer product and provide a detailed explanation of various report-generating options. We show how to import the extracted performance data into DB2 and into spreadsheets for...

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IBM Tools: CICS Performance Monitor V1.1

IBM Tools: CICS Performance Monitor V1.1

By: Chris Rayns; Simon Calthrop; George Bogner; Ken Ray; Rob Jones; Joe Sewell

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 30-APR-2003

Insert Date: 22-OCT-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication is primarily intended for CICS Transaction Server V1.3 and V2.2 customers who plan to implement IBM CICS Performance Monitor in order to help identify and fix problems with their CICS systems. The book starts with an overview of CICS provided tools and utilities that help gather and analyze performance data. Then CICS Performance Monitor is introduced and a detailed description is provided of the Installation of both CICS PM and CICSPlex SM, followed by and introduction to the CICS PM GUI interface and the CICSPlex SM web user interface. The second part of the...

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CICS Performance Analyzer

CICS Performance Analyzer

By: Chris Rayns; Shirley Collins; Eugene Deborin; Peter Klein; Greg Todaro; Mark Todd; Norbert Verbestel

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 01-DEC-2003

Insert Date: 17-SEP-2012

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication targets CICS® Transaction Server V1.3 and V2.2 customers who plan to implement IBM CICS Performance Analyzer. This tool allows you to produce a wide range of reports and extracts to help you tune and manage CICS systems. The first part of this book begins with an overview of CICS-provided tools and utilities that help you gather and analyze performance data. Then it introduces the CICS Performance Analyzer product and its various report generating options. It also shows you how to import the extracted performance data into spreadsheets for further...

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CICS Performance Monitor Release 2

CICS Performance Monitor Release 2

By: Chris Rayns; Paul Carruthers; Grant Shayler; Daniel Waber

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 22-JAN-2004

Insert Date: 17-SEP-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication updates the CICS PM Release 1 book with enhancements that come with Release 2. Historical data capture is added, as well as additional functionality in the GUI. We also look at the enhancements of the underlying Web User Interface region. This book is intended primarily for CICS Transaction Server V2.2 customers who plan to implement IBM CICS Performance Monitor V1.2 . The book starts with an overview of tools and utilities provided by CICS that help you gather and analyze performance data. We then introduce the CICS Performance Monitor, providing an overview...

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CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS Version 6.1

CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS Version 6.1

By: Colin Alcock; Steven Day; Tommy Joergensen; Rob Jones; Phil Wakelin; Nigel Williams

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 22-MAY-2006

Insert Date: 10-APR-2012

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The CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) is used widely to provide access to CICS programs from Java environments. It provides the IBM implementation of the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA). This IBM Redbooks publication introduces the new facilities of the CICS TG for z/OS V6.0 and V6.1, which provide improvements in the areas of transactional integration, systems management, performance, security, and ease of use. Included in this book are a set of configuration scenarios for a variety of different deployment topologies for integrating J2EE applications on WebSphere Application Server...

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CICS Transaction Server V3R1 Channels and Containers Revealed

CICS Transaction Server V3R1 Channels and Containers Revealed

By: Chris Rayns; Pietro De Angelis; Steve Burghard; Dave Carey; Scott Clee; Peter Klein; Erhard Woerner

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 15-SEP-2006

Insert Date: 20-MAR-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication discusses the new channels and containers support in CICS Transaction Server 3.1. It provides an overview about techniques used to pass data between applications running in CICS and their constraints. It provides information, which allows CICS to fully comply with emerging technology requirements in terms of sizing and flexibility.This book discusses about application design and implementing channels and containers from an application programmers point of view. It provides examples to show how to evolve channels and containers from COMMAREAs. It explains the...

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Revealed! The Next Generation of Distributed CICS

Revealed! The Next Generation of Distributed CICS

By: Chris Rayns; Antonella Bertoletti; Iain Boyle; Yu Dong Kai; Nigel Eaton; Dan Litwin; Ken Ray; Hariharan Venkitachalam

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 18-SEP-2006

Insert Date: 20-MAR-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication looks at IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms, which is a premier IBM distributed transaction processing software for business-critical applications. Before discussing distributed transaction processing in general, we introduce the TXSeries for Multiplatforms Version 6.0 (V6.0).This book discusses distributed IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) solutions and how best to develop distributed CICS applications. It also demonstrates enterprise integration with products such as relational database management system (RDBMS), IBM WebSphere MQ, and IBM WebSphere...

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Migration Considerations for CICS Using CICS CM, CICS PA, and CICS IA

Migration Considerations for CICS Using CICS CM, CICS PA, and CICS IA

By: Chris Rayns; Em James; Graham Hannington; Hannah Macleod; Kenneth Meredith; Jennifer Nott; Adrian Simcock

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 19-OCT-2006

Insert Date: 18-MAR-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on CICS Migration to CICS TS 3.1, showing you how the CICS Tools (CICS Configuration Manager, CICS Interdependency Analyzer, and CICS Performance Analyzer) can help you with your migration.Part 1, "Introduce CICS TS 3.1 and the CICS Tools” on page1, gives an overview of the new functionality available in CICS TS 3.1 and an overview of the CICS Tools individually.Part 2, "Migration” on page111, looks at migration, discussing migration considerations and CICS TS 3.1 exploitation. It also looks at three migration scenarios:- Migrating CICS TS 2.3 CSD to CICS...

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Securing Access to CICS Within an SOA

Securing Access to CICS Within an SOA

By: Chris Rayns; Tony Delmenico; Peter Havercan; Mary Rees; Steven Webb; Rob Weiss

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 12-DEC-2006

Insert Date: 05-MAR-2012

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With the emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA), the options for accessing the existing IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) assets have become more varied than ever. With this variety comes the complexity of securing these assets. This IBM Redbooks publication is intended for IT architects who are involved in the process of selecting, planning, and designing a secure SOA solution that makes use of CICS assets.This book introduces SOA and the options available for transforming CICS assets into SOA solutions. It then discusses the principles of security, followed by the...

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Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB

Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB

By: Chris Rayns; David Carey; Andrew Gardner; Jenny Nott; Adrian Simcock

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 12-SEP-2007

Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication provides a practical demonstration of how to develop applications that take advantage of CICS Web services facilities. This book can be viewed as a follow-on from the IBM Redbooks publication Application Development for CICS Web Services, SG24-7126-00, with the addition of using modern tooling techniques. Because we are creating a new application, we follow the bottom-up approach described in Application Development for CICS Web Services, SG24-7126-00. Although not a requirement, we highly recommend that you review that publication for a much deeper discussion of...

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Implementing CICS Web Services

Implementing CICS Web Services

By: Nigel Williams; Luis Aused Lopez; Robert Herman; Mike Ebbers; Grant Ward Able; Paolo Chieregatti; Tommy Joergensen; Steve Wall

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 10-OCT-2007

Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012

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The Web services support in CICS Transaction Server Version 3.1 enables your CICS programs to be Web service providers or requesters. CICS supports a number of specifications including SOAP Version 1.1 and Version 1.2, and Web services distributed transactions (WS-Atomic Transaction).This IBM Redbooks publication will help you configure the CICS Web services support for both HTTP and WebSphere MQ based solutions. We show how Web services can be used to integrate J2EE applications running in WebSphere Application Server with COBOL programs running in CICS.It begins with an overview of Web...

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CICS System Manager in the WUI as the Principle Management Interface

CICS System Manager in the WUI as the Principle Management Interface

By: Chris Rayns; Gordon Keehn; Adrian Ray; John Dobler; Daniel Donnelly

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 16-NOV-2007

Insert Date: 16-JAN-2012

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication reviews the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface (WUI). We first give an overview of CICSPlex SM and the WUI. In Chapter 2, "CICSPlex SM installation" on page 13, we show an installation for first time users of CICSPlex SM and the WUI for CICSPlex SM V3.2. Chapter 3, "CICSPlex SM migration" on page 55, concentrates on how to migrate to CICSPlex SM V3.2. We discuss the migration best practices and show a migration step-by-step. This book also reviews the default menus delivered with the CICSPlex SM WUI and describes scenarios where these views could be used. We...

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CICS Transaction Server from Start to Finish

CICS Transaction Server from Start to Finish

By: Chris Rayns; Sarah Bertram; George Bogner; Chris Carlin; Andre Clark; Amy Ferrell; Gordon Keehn; Peter Klein; Ronald Lee; Erhard Woerner

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 07-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 14-DEC-2011

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In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss CICS®, which stands for Customer Information Control System. It is a general-purpose transaction processing subsystem for the z/OS® operating system. CICS provides services for running an application online where, users submit requests to run applications simultaneously. CICS manages sharing resources, the integrity of data, and prioritizes execution with fast response. CICS authorizes users, allocates resources (real storage and cycles), and passes on database requests by the application to the appropriate database manager, such as DB2®. We...

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Designing and Programming CICS Applications

Designing and Programming CICS Applications

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 31-JUL-2000

Insert Date: 19-JUL-2011

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Designing and Programming CICS Applications targets a diverse audience. It introduces new users of IBM's mainframe (OS/390) to CICS features. It shows experienced users how to integrate existing mainframe systems with newer technologies, including the Web, CORBA, Java, CICS clients, and Visual Basic; as well as how to link MQSeries and CICS. Users learn not only how to design and write their programs, but also how to deploy their applications....

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Introduction to CICS Dynamic Scripting

Introduction to CICS Dynamic Scripting

By: Chris Rayns; George Bogner; Regis David; Yun Peng Ge; Guan Jun Liu; James O'Grady; Adam Rice; Dennis Weiand; Zhi Qiu Xie; Helen Xue

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 28-MAR-2011

Insert Date: 05-APR-2011

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IBM® CICS® Transaction Server Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting embeds and integrates technology from WebSphere® sMash into the CICS TS V4.1 run time, helping to reduce the time and cost of CICS application development. The Feature Pack provides a robust, managed environment for a wide range of situational applications allowing PHP and Groovy developers to create reports, dashboards, and widgets, and integrate CICS assets into mash-ups, and much more. The CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack combines the benefits of scripted, Web 2.0 applications with easy and secure access to...

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Threadsafe Considerations for CICS

Threadsafe Considerations for CICS

By: Chris Rayns; Edward Addison; Diana Blair; George Bogner; David Carey; Tony Fiztgerald; Scott McClure; Christen Plum; John Tilling; Andy Wright

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 03-NOV-2010

Insert Date: 09-NOV-2010

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a comprehensive guide to threadsafe concepts and implementation in the context of CICS. In addition to providing detailed instructions for implementing threadsafe in your environment, it describes the real world experiences of users migrating applications to be threadsafe, along with our own experiences. It also presents a discussion of the two most critical aspects of threadsafe, system performance, and integrity. Originally, CICS employed a single TCB to process everything (such as application code, task dispatching, terminal control, file control, and...

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Leveraging CICS Events with an ESB

Leveraging CICS Events with an ESB

By: Chris Rayns; George Bogner; Erich Hoppe; Ron Lotter; Edward McCarthy; Fintan McElroy; Randy Miller; Steven Webb; Dennis Weiand; Frances Williams; Paul Wilson

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 05-AUG-2010

Insert Date: 02-OCT-2010

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There are many reasons to use an enterprise service bus (ESB) as the event bus: In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we show examples of using an ESB to transform and enrich an event received from Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Transaction Server. We also show an example of enriching an event. This book is intended for anyone planning to use CICS events with an ESB. This book contains four parts: Part 1, "Introduction" on page 1 introduces event processing. We explain what it is and why you need it. We also review the CICS TS implementation of event processing. We discuss...

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Smarter Banking with CICS Transaction Server

Smarter Banking with CICS Transaction Server

By: Chris Rayns; Neil Ashworth; Peter Beevers; Vesna Eibel; Fabrice Jarassat; Claus T Jensen; Alison Lucas; Anthony Papageorgiou; Alain Roessle; Nigel Williams

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 22-APR-2010

Insert Date: 01-OCT-2010

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It goes without saying that 2009 was a year of unprecedented change in global banking. The challenges that financial institutions are facing require them to cut costs but also to regain trust and improve the service that they provide to an increasingly sophisticated and demanding set of customers. In the past, siloed and rigid IT systems often inhibited banks in their attempts to re-engineer their business processes. The IBM® smarter banking initiative highlights how more intelligent software can be used to significantly improve the end-to-end integration of banking processes. In this IBM...

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Extend the CICS Explorer: A better way to manage your CICS

Extend the CICS Explorer: A better way to manage your CICS

By: Chris Rayns; Scott Clee; Taku Miura; Shayla Robinson; Yusuke Tamura; John Taylor; Steve Wall

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 23-FEB-2010

Insert Date: 08-SEP-2010

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CICS® Explorer™ is the latest significant evolution in the management and analysis of your CICS environment. It is a statement of intent from the CICS Development organization, which is determined to ensure you can manage your CICS estate in a simple and easily extensible way, using a combination of: - Tried and trusted CICS expertise and technology - The widely accepted user interfaces and integration power of the open source Eclipse platform - Web 2.0 and RESTful programming (this technology underpins the CICS Explorer concept) The objective of this IBM® Redbooks® publication shows how you...

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Application Development for CICS Web Services

Application Development for CICS Web Services

By: Chris Rayns; George Burgess; Paul Cooper; Tony Fitzgerald; Ankur Goyal; Peter Klein; Guo Qiang Li; SanYong Liu; Yan Sun

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 11-JAN-2010

Insert Date: 26-FEB-2010

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on developing Web service applications in CICS®. It takes the broad view of developing and modernizing CICS applications for XML, Web services, SOAP, and SOA support, and lays out a reference architecture for developing these kinds of applications. We start by discussing Web services in general, then review how CICS implements Web services. We offer an overview of different development approaches: bottom-up, top-down, and meet-in-the-middle. After laying out the foundations, we review the CICS catalog manager sample application, as this is the...