This book gives you tools--BMS maps, programs, JCL, etc.--you can easily copy to your own data sets, compile or assemble, and execute with little or no change. And it teaches you how to develop similar tools yourself. These utilities solve practical problems commonly faced by application and system programmers and analysts in MVS and DOS/VSE environments.

This Second Edition includes all relevant information regarding IBM's latest major update releases of CICS. Using a step-by-step tutorial, it shows how to develop and maintain CICS code for maximum system effectiveness. Coverage includes all commands, support functions, and VS COBOL II; detailed information on using the first microcomputer (OS/2) version of CICS; and table setup and system utilities for applications programmers developing software on personal computers. By providing a wealth of real-world examples, teaches readers a practical, streamlined approach to problem solving using the latest CICS coding techniques.

IBM® CICS® is a mixed language application server that runs on IBM Z®. Over the 50 years since CICS was introduced in 1969, enterprises have used the qualities of service (QoSs) that CICS provides to allow them to create high throughput and secure transactional applications that have powered their business. As the IT landscape has evolved, so has CICS to allow these applications to integrate with new platforms and still provide value to the rest of the business. Because of this capability, many businesses still rely on CICS to power their core applications. This IBM Redpaper publication focuses on modernizing these CICS applications, allowing them to integrate with cloud-native applications. This modernization can be achieved either by constructing application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow new cloud-native applications to connect to your existing assets, rewriting parts of your application in newer languages and hosting them back on CICS, or by using CICS capabilities to extend your applications to provide new capabilities and functions. The paper takes a traditional example application and shows you how it works. Then, the paper extends the example, rewrites portions of its functions, and enables its APIs. It also explains how CICS applications can use continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to deliver, test, and deploy code into CICS easily and with quality.

This book gives you tools--BMS maps, programs, JCL, etc.--you can easily copy to your own data sets, compile or assemble, and execute with little or no change. And it teaches you how to develop similar tools yourself. These utilities solve practical problems commonly faced by application and system programmers and analysts in MVS and DOS/VSE environments.

Presented as a practical approach suitable for new users of IBM's mainframe system, "Designing & Programming CICS Applications" is designed to give insights into the range of features provided by CICS. Written for experienced users, the book explains how to integrate existing mainframe systems with newer technologies.

With a little effort from [the reader], this Primer can teach you how to write CICS application programs, using the command-level CICS interface and the COBOL programming language. [The authors] assume [the reader] is an application programmer, bringing to CICS [their] existing knowledge of COBOL gained in a batch programming environment. However, experience of other (non-CICS) online systems, and of other high-level programming languages (such as PL/I), will be helpful.-Pref.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the new channels and containers support in IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Transaction Server V5.2. The book begins with an overview of the techniques used to pass data between applications running in CICS. This book describes the constraints that these data techniques might be subject to, and how a channels and containers solution can provide solid advantages alongside these techniques. These capabilities enable CICS to fully comply with emerging technology requirements in terms of sizing and flexibility. The book then goes on to describe application design, and looks at implementing channels and containers from an application programmer point of view. It provides examples to show how to evolve channels and containers from communication areas (COMMAREAs). Next, the book explains the channels and containers application programming interface (API). It also describes how this API can be used in both traditional CICS applications and a Java CICS (JCICS) applications. The business transaction services (BTS) API is considered as a similar yet recoverable alternative to channels and containers. Some authorized program analysis reports (APARs) are introduced, which enable more flexible web services features by using channels and containers. The book also presents information from a systems management point of view, describing the systems management and configuration tasks and techniques that you must consider when implementing a channels and containers solution. The book chooses a sample application in the CICS catalog manager example, and describes how you can port an existing CICS application to use channels and containers rather than using COMMAREAs.