Keynote and CICS Family Update

Dave Andrews
IBM

Monday 2nd August 2010

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Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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IBM zEnterprise System – Best in Class Systems and Software
Technologies
A system of systems that unifies IT for predictable service delivery
Unified
Unified management
management for
for aa smarter
smarter system:
system:
zEnterprise
zEnterprise Unified
Unified Resource
Resource Manager
Manager

Part of the IBM System Director family,
provides platform, hardware and workload Scale
Scale out
out to
to aa trillion
trillion
The
The world’s
world’s fastest
fastest and
and management instructions per second:
instructions per second:
most
most scalable
scalable system:
system:
Unifies management of resources, IBM
IBM zEnterprise
zEnterprise
IBM zEnterprise™™ 196
IBM zEnterprise 196 extending IBM System z® qualities of BladeCenter®® Extension
BladeCenter Extension
(z196)
(z196) service across the infrastructure (zBX)
(zBX)

Ideal for large scale • Selected IBM POWER7™
data and transaction blades and IBM System x®
serving and mission Blades1 for tens of thousands
critical applications of AIX® and Linux
applications

Most efficient platform
for Large-scale Linux® • High performance optimizers
consolidation and appliances to accelerate
time to insight and reduce

Leveraging a large cost
portfolio of z/OS® and
Linux on System z • Dedicated high performance
applications private network

Capable of massive
scale up, over 50 Billion
Instructions per Second
(BIPS)
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1 All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice,
and represents goals and objectives only.
IBM zEnterprise System and CICS

•96 total cores running at 5.2 GHz

•New Instructions – particularly
advantageous for Java workload
•Delivers up to 60% improvement in
performance and total capacity compared
z10 EC

CICS Benefits
•Existing applications get immediate throughput benefit
•CICS Java applications can exploit new z-Instuctions

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IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and CICS

Expanded ISV support for enterprise

applications
Targeted for applications that interact with
mainframe data and transactions
Provisioned and managed by System z

CICS Benefits
•Consolidation point for TXSeries and CICS Transaction
Gateway servers

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Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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CICS Future Directions

1. Build a enterprise level transaction processing platform

• Supports Traditional CICS values of quality, performance and
reliability
• Supports Enterprise Modernization through
• Mixed programming languages
• Modern programming architectures (SOA, Web2.0 etc)

2. Simplify management and reduce skills needs for CICS

system programmers and application programmers

3. Encourage a vibrant partner ecosystem and community

4. Extend reach to emerging geographies and new customers

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 Driving Agility while Optimizing Costs

Business Needs Core Capabilities

“Ensure applications Rock Solid SOA

consistently deliver on Application
business needs in all Infrastructure
situations”

“Provide access and

links into the heart of the Connectivity &
enterprise” Integration

“Quickly adapt and

respond to changing Dynamic
customer expectations Application
and business demands” Platform

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The CICS Family

CICS Transaction Server CICS Transaction Gateway

The worlds most popular transaction processor The most popular connector from WebSphere to CICS

Topology 1 WAS and

CTG on a
Compete

distributed
platform
Topology 2
zSeries
WAS on a
distributed CTG
platform to z/OS

ol Com CICS
tr p
Con ly WAS
Topology 3 and CTG
Network
on zSeries
HTML

TXSeries CICS Tools

IBM’s popular distributed CICS offering Optimise Management of CICS
Transform and Reuse CICS Applications
CICS
TXSeries Communications CICS TS
CICS Governance and Compliance

RDBM SFS MQ RDBMS, VSAM MQ

S VSAM
mapped to Queues IMS or Queues
RDBMS other
DBM
Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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CICS Transaction Server
Out of Service Releases In Service Releases

CICS TS
V4
CICS/ESA V3 New

Restructure

31 bit V2 Workload

Parallel Sysplex
SOA
V1 Java
Web OTE

1990s 2000s 2010s

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CICS V4.1 - Rock Solid SOA Application Infrastructure
Announced: April 09
Generally Available: June 09 Business events
Customer References: Atom feeds
• John Lewis, BCX, DATEV, SEB Web Services Addressing
WebSphere Registry & Repository Support
ISV support:
•http://www.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/partners.html Support for distributed identities

Compete
Resource signatures

CICS Explorer
Enhanced CICSPlex SM workload
management
New SPI commands for managing the CSD
Performance Improvements
MQ Group Attach
Com
Discovery Library Adapter
o ntrol p ly
IPV6 C
Large file hosting
IPIC Transaction Routing
Business events
Application Bundles
Atom feeds

Improvements to XML parsing
RESTful interfaces
Service Component Architecture
Service Component Architecture
Web Services Addressing
Java 6
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1
4

ILOG BRMS System z Options

Many existing CICS applications embed rules logic

CICS Issues
Application
• Rules are hidden in code or isolated
Business Logic within the organization
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

• Changes are hard to track and maintain

PROGRAM-ID. BLANK-SCREEN.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. INTEL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. INTEL.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.

over time
77 HIT PIC X.
77 OPEN-STOCK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BILLS-REC PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 MACHINERY PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 FURNITURE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BUILDING PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 DEBTORS PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-IN-OFFICE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-AT-BANK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 77 77

• Rules used by systems have to be

Rules Logic programmed and require IT resources
• Duplication and multiple versions of the
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. BLANK-SCREEN.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. INTEL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. INTEL.
DATA DIVISION.

same rules
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
77 HIT PIC X.
77 OPEN-STOCK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BILLS-REC PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 MACHINERY PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 FURNITURE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BUILDING PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 DEBTORS PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-IN-OFFICE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-AT-BANK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.

• Lack of auditability, traceability

77 77 77

Business Logic
• Decision changes cannot be easily tested
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. BLANK-SCREEN.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. INTEL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. INTEL.
DATA DIVISION.
or simulated
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
77 HIT PIC X.
77 OPEN-STOCK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BILLS-REC PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 MACHINERY PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 FURNITURE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BUILDING PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 DEBTORS PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-IN-OFFICE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-AT-BANK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 77 77

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1
5

ILOG BRMS System z Options

Write, maintain
& manage rules

COBOL JRules using

Copybook
CICS Rule Execution Server
Application
User Tools Rule Repository
Business Logic
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. BLANK-SCREEN.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. INTEL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. INTEL.
BRMS
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
77 HIT PIC X.

Rules logic compiled

77 OPEN-STOCK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BILLS-REC PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 MACHINERY PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 FURNITURE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BUILDING PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 DEBTORS PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-IN-OFFICE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-AT-BANK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.

into new Cobol Rules

77 77 77

Rules Logic Program Rule Server

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. BLANK-SCREEN.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. INTEL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. INTEL.
DATA DIVISION.
EXEC CICS Decision
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
Channel
Services
77 HIT PIC X.

LINK Program
77 OPEN-STOCK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BILLS-REC PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.

Container
77 MACHINERY PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 FURNITURE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BUILDING PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 DEBTORS PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-IN-OFFICE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-AT-BANK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 77 77

Business Logic Cobol Rules

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. BLANK-SCREEN.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.

SupportPac CA0A
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
SOURCE-COMPUTER. INTEL.
OBJECT-COMPUTER. INTEL.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
77 HIT PIC X.
77 OPEN-STOCK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BILLS-REC PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 MACHINERY PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 FURNITURE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 BUILDING PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 DEBTORS PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-IN-OFFICE PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 CASH-AT-BANK PIC 9(7) VALUE ZEROES.
77 77 77

Redpaper - Rules for COBOL with CICS Channels and Containers

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4589.html?Open 15
Transform Insight into Action with CICS Events and
WebSphere Business Events

WebSphere
CICS
Application Business
Algorithms Events

Business Occurrences
Events WebSphere
Business Information Business Monitor Business
Leader
WebSphere
CICS TS Version 4.1 Process Server

Key Business information can be externalized from critical

Applications as execution occurs to
• Immediately update business views
• Trigger other business behaviours
Business
NO APPLICATION CHANGE REQUIRED Professional

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CICS and Event Processing

WebSphere
CICS Event Processing Business
Events
Event Capture
Existing Filtering

Events
Business Enrichment
Logic Formatting WebSphere
Captured Routing Business
Monitor
Code Extensible
NOT Events Secured
Monitored Other
changed Event
etc.
Consumers
CICS Transaction Server V4.1

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 CICS Web 2.0 ATOM Feed
Map API

Resource
Updates
Web Services
Temp VSAM
Insurance
Web Browsers
Storage Files
Business
WebSphere
SERVICE

Atom
ATOM

Updated Values Professional

feeds sMash
Rick Web Client
Server
CICS TS Version 4.1 Devices

Servlets & Scripts

CICS File and TS resources made available as RSS feed

•Rapidly included as a standard information source
•Naturally integrated with other live data sources
•Available in standard web developer tool kits
Consumers
NO APPLICATION CHANGE REQUIRED
•In CICS V3, use SupportPac CA8K to generate ATOM feeds
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CICS Dynamic Scripting
Announce April 30th 2010, GA June 25th 2010
• Increase the agility and productivity of CICS Application and System
developers
• Enabling them to respond in days, rather than weeks or months
• Without compromising the integrity of the core business systems

• New Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack for CICS

• that embeds and integrates Project Zero technology into CICS TS
• providing a CICS based runtime for PHP and Groovy applications.

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

New CICS Traditional CICS

managed API Applications with
PHP and 99.999% availability
Groovy apps requirements

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2
0

CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack V1.0

Edit Cobol Compile CICS Region

Transaction Start
Load Program
1001001001 Run program
Debug LinkEdit 0101010101 1001001001
0100010000 0101010101 New Copy
0100010000

Traditional App Dev

DFHRPL

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2
1

CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack V1.0

Edit Cobol Compile CICS Region

Transaction Start
Load Program
1001001001 Run program
Debug LinkEdit 0101010101 1001001001
0100010000 0101010101 New Copy
0100010000

Traditional App Dev

DFHRPL .php

.Groovy

.html

CICS Dynamic
Edit .php Scripting Support
.Groovy

.html

Unix zFile System

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Lab Performance of Dynamic Scripting in CICS

3 hour test using HTTP and HTTPS.

250 HTTPS clients & 100 HTTP clients.

The HTTPS clients read 12,150 MB of data, and wrote
1,121MB & The HTTP clients read 3,417 MB of data, and
wrote 301MB.

One CICS region, MXT=500, JVMSERVER Threads
set to 50.

At the end of the test, we had 4.2 million tasks, a
transaction rate of 326.59 per second.

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Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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TXSeries for Multiplatforms V7.1
TXSeries runs and supports CICS Transactions on Distributed platforms
Generally Available April 2009

Key Characteristics:

An application deployment platform for C, C++, Java, COBOL and PL/I applications

Supports a wide subset of CICS API

Integrated inside RDz as part of a local application development environment

New with TXSeries V7.1

Simplified Interoperability with CICS and CTG over
TCP/IP

Support for Channels and Containers

Enhanced TXSeries Admin Console

Improved system resilience and debugging

Memory isolation

Task history logging

Performance Probe

Free Evaluation trial available

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TXSeries In-bound SOAP supportPac
Available November 2009

TXSERIES

CICS Web Services Assistant tools

LWI CICS Region

SOAP Request

SOAP Data
Clients conversion COMMAREA C/COBOL

SOAP Response CICS

Application

• CICS Web Services Assistant Tools generate WSDL & WSBind files from the
C structure or COBOL copybook.
•LWI (Light Weight Infrastructure) uses the WSBind file for generating
COMMAREA from SOAP request and vice-versa.

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TXSeries Out-bound SOAP support
Developer Works Article Available

WEB SERVICE PROVIDER

Apache AXIS2/C
TXSeries WSDL
WEB SERVICE REQUESTER WSDL2C
Tools

C/C++ Web Service

CICS WSDL
Application Outbound Web Services Call
Stub

• WSDL2C Tools provided by the Apache AXIS2/C are used to generate stub files from a WSDL.

• C/C++ CICS applications calls these stub API functions to invoke Web service.
•Development methodology explained in the dW article.
Notes:
• COBOL CICS applications cannot be used to invoke Web services since AXIS2/C does not support COBOL
programming language.
• AXIS2/C does not support on AIX platform.
• COMMAREA Data conversion is applications responsibility. No explicit support for this.
• No EXEC CICS style APIs. So the coding has to be more on C style
• No Transaction support.

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TXSeries for Multiplatforms
Recent SupportPac Enhancements

IBM Migration Assistant for Oracle Tuxedo – CE01

New
Released: 6Jul10

Enables Oracle Tuxedo applications to be seamlessly migrated to IBM
TXSeries for Multiplatforms

No Application changes required

Minimal changes required to the application's build process.

TXSeries Business Events SupportPac – CB01 New

Released: 15Jun10

Enables IBM TXSeries to be a source of events to WebSphere Business
Events (WBE), and to participate in event processing solutions

Small changes required to your TXSeries application code

Similar to Event Processing supportpac for CICS TS V3

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Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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 CICS Transaction Gateway V8.0
Extending Access to CICS Transactions
Announced April 27th 2010, GA May 21st 2010
Enable your CICS Investment for SOA through CICS TG

Scalable Adapter/Connector that enables modernization of CICS
Applications for both J2EE and .NET environments

High performance, high scalability, and maximum system availability

Available on z/OS, AIX, Windows, Linux, Solaris & HPUX

Industry proven in over 1,500 customer installations

“We tested the new CTG V8.0 High Availability exit where you can now, dynamically, modify the
list of CICS Servers a CTG can target, without the need to recycle the Gateway.
We also tested the complement of related commands to list and reset the CICS Server array and to
control the level of message logging performed by the gateway.
We are very impressed with this new functionality. It has provided, precisely, what we were looking
for, in terms of dynamic control of our CTG to CICS routing.”
David Jones, Aetna

"We tested the new exits which give an out of the box capability for high availability / failover and
request validation and an easy template to customise these for further requirements. "We tested the
CICS TG explorer plugin which offers a quickly implemented alternative to running a full monitoring
solution for CTG / ZOS and CTG / AIX"
US Healthcare Provider

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CICS TG V8.0 .NET Application Support

• ECI v2 .NET API

• .NET API for ECI calls to CICS
• Allows CTG ECI v2 APIs to be used in .NET managed runtime for
C#, C++ or VB.NET applications

• .NET Tutorial
• Demonstrates how to use CTG/CUC ECI v1 APIs usage in .NET
managed runtime
• Category2 SupportPac

Windows .NET client

CICS regions
.NET managed Mixed-mode
environment ECIv2 C functions
DLL assembly

ECIv2
CTG TOR
.NET
TOR
application
IBM.CTG.Client.dll ctgclient.dll AOR

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Next: Performance
CICS TG V8.0 Explorer and Embedded

CICS Explorer Embeddable

Support Version
• Enhanced integration with CICS • Embedded version available for CICS
Explorer for easier management of Transaction Gateway V7.2 and V8.0
CICS Transaction Gateway resources
Standalone Embedded

Enterprise
Application/
Enterprise
Solution
Application/
Solution

CICS
Transaction
Gateway

CICS
Transaction
Gateway

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Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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IBM CICS Explorer - The New Face of CICS
• Modern Eclipse based Tool (Windows and Linux)
• Free entitlement with CICS TS V3 and V4
• Delivers revolutionary integration of development, administrative, and operations
tools
• Aimed at CICS system programmers to provide a Systems Management
alternative to the ‘Green Screen’
• Designed for both new and experienced CICS users
• Improves the overall effectiveness of CICS System Programmers
• Reduces the cost of ownership for key CICS applications

• Experience gets Richer when used later versions of CICS Products

Coming soon in CICS Explorer V1.0.1

• System z perspective and APIs
• View/edit zOS datasets and zFS files
• View/edit/submit JCL
• View completed JES spool output
• View completed job log
• Hyperlink quickly from DD statements
to named datasets
• Connection import/export

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 IBM CICS Explorer™

Develop TG MQ XE
Configuration Daemon & Status
Test DT FA PA Status Connection Situations
Etc FM APA
CM IA Control, Test Status & Test Topology
SM

MQ TG XE
plus … RDz

CICS, IMS, DB2, Threadsafe, File, CPU,

& z/OS Response Time analysis
Abend Reporting Graphical and
& Diagnosis Sheet views

FA PA

CRUD/Install Execution Tree

CICS, IMS, CICS, IMS, DB2, History, Audit Dependencies
DB2, & z/OS & z/OS Backout Queries
Application Observation Requests Search, Compare Command Flow
Debugging & Reporting CRUD/Install Deployment
Control, Filter CM IA
APA Discovery,
DT Topology Visualization,
Events, ATOM Automation & Control
SM DA

Servers
Agents

CICS TS

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Agenda – CICS Family Update

• New zEnterprise announcement

• CICS Product Family Updates

• CICS TS V4
• ILOG Rules support
• CICS Events
• CICS Atom Support
• CICS Dynamic Scripting
• TXSeries
• CICS Transaction Gateway V8
• CICS Explorer
• CICS Deployment Assistant

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 CICS Deployment Assistant?
• Announced: 22 July ’10 GA: 24 Sep ’10

New IBM tool for CICS TS V3 and V4

• Host Components
• CICS Explorer Plug-in

Discover and create offline model for CICS configurations

• Start-up Options
• Connectivity relationships
• Sub-system dependencies

Visualize and Update CICS Systems

• Compare model to ‘live’ CICS system
• Clone existing systems or start new CICS regions

Exploits CICS Explorer V1.01 enhancements

• View and work with JCL, Spool Files and Host
Datasets
• Issue MVS Commands

More info at http://ibm.com/cics/da

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 CICS Tools – Trends and Directions

Intended Capabilities -

Discovery Policy Expert Deployment

Creation of model from Apply IBM and customer Deployment of resources as
customer's running system. policies for best practice. specified in a model
according to chosen
CICS Artifacts and bindings Compliance checking and policies.
to other systems and enforcement.
resources

Model (CICS specific)

Applications, Systems, Topologies, Policies,
Annotations

Foundation
Visualization, comparison, editing, versioning, sharing, server
support ...

VIRTUALIZATION
+ STANDARDIZATION
+ AUTOMATION
= Cost Flexibility

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Summary

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Reference Material

• CICS Communities
• CICS Development Services
• CICS On Demand Seminars

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 CICS Communities eNews

• CICS home page Home page

• Remember this link www.ibm.com/cics

• CICS eNews
• Subscribe for news about CICS and related
products

• Twitter
• Subscribe to the IBM_System_z channel to get Twitter

CICS Explorer news flashes

• CICS Blog
• Comment and opinion at
TheMasterTerminal.com
Blog

• YouTube channels
• CICS Explorer - Videos, demos and other cool
stuff
YouTube
• CICSFluff - Other CICS videos
• CICS Facebook
• I ♥ CICS 40
CICS Development Technical Services
Helping to solve Business Problems and exploiting new Business Opportunities

Engage the IBM Hursley CICS development team to ensure that you get the maximum value from your CICS investments.

Consultants are now available via a funded services engagement directly from CICS development providing a complete
range of CICS services - no one has more experience!

• For more information please contact: [email protected]

CICS On Demand Seminars

Free customised technical agenda of CICS TS and CICS tools products
• Web Services, Events, Web 2.0, version upgrades, tooling etc.
Targeted at AD, System Programmers and Architects at customers’ own location
Demonstrates how to use the new features in the latest releases to leverage existing solutions
Can be tailored to customers interests

• For more information please contact: [email protected]

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CICS Development Technical Services

•Upgrade Services
• Efficiently update your CICS environment to the latest version to exploit new CICS features such as: Web services, IP connectivity,
CICS Explorer, Event Processing, Web 2.0, Atom Feeds and PHP scripting in CICS
• System Health Check
• Ensures that your CICS environment is functioning optimally. Our Best Practice Review will check your CICS configuration
parameters and values and provide a report with recommendations to improve the running of your CICS business systems
• Security and Governance
• This services helps you assess and ensure the security and compliance of your CICS assets. We provide a security and vulnerability
Risk Assessment and make recommendations of how best to secure your CICS assets
• Performance Optimization
• Get the most out of your environment, improved performance equals lower cost. We review CICS performance data from SMF
records and/or CICS tooling to provide tuning recommendations and Capacity Planning advice
• Web Services Enablement
• Unlock and re-use your CICS business assets in the connected world of SOA. We provide education and implementation for CICS
Web services support including Rational Developer for z tooling. We can help with identifying assets for re-use in an application and
legacy modernization project
• Integration and Connectivity
• We provide consultancy for migration from SNA to IP connectivity as well as using connection technologies such as the CICS
Transaction Gateway and Web services to provide the availability of your CICS business assets to a wider audience in an SOA
• Systems Management
• Our Systems Management offering is aimed at ensuring that your CICS environment is being managed to Best Practice standards.
The engagement may range from a short analysis of the CICS Systems Management tools techniques used in your enterprise, to a
full implementation of CICSPlex SM, CICS Explorer and other IBM CICS Systems Management products
Customized Workshops
• We offer Customized Workshops to meet your education needs for the CICS Family of products. These workshops are staffed by
senior CICS developers and can be run either at your location, or at an IBM location that meets with your preference. 42
New CICS Explorer Redbook - SG24-7778-00

• This Redbook® focuses on the new

CICS Explorer
• The first part of the Redbook
overviews the CICS Explorer, along
with all the CICS Tools plug-ins
• The second part of the Redbook
focuses on different scenarios in
which the CICS Explorer can be used,
along with the CICS Tools plug-ins to
resolve different problems
• http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpiec
es/abstracts/sg247778.html

“RedBooks are very good, this one is just Excelsissimus!

I can't wait for the final!”
customer feedback on public review draft
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New CICS Tools analyst white paper

• Branham Group interviewed CICS

Tools customers, with
•CICS Interdependency Analyzer
•CICS Performance Analyzer
•CICS Configuration Manager

• Common business value propositions

emerged, including the following
examples of achievable cost savings:
• 75% time savings for the identification,
coding, and testing of CPSM rules, in some
cases equating to the recovery of a whole month
in time savings for a major affinity.
• 90+% time savings to identify and validate
typical performance issue related changes.
• 66% less time on average to administer CICS
Service Definition changes, which happen on a
daily basis.
• 2%-15% CPU cycles recovered through the
designation of CICS applications as threadsafe
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/sw-library/en_US/detail/W673317J82076R27.html
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 Strengthening CICS User Communities
• Worldwide User Groups and Events www.ibm.com/cics/events
• USA,
• Impact, SHARE
• Europe,
• CICS User Groups, Transaction and Messaging conference, GSE
Nordic
• Japan,
• IBM Z World
• Korea, China, Brazil, India
• CICS User Groups

• CICS Home Page www.ibm.com/cics

• First place to look for CICS information
• Product details and announcements

• CICS Electronic News www.ibm.com/cics/enews

• Subscribe for news about CICS and related products

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Modern Customer Interaction

• Twitter – News feed and updates

http://twitter.com/IBM_System_z

• CICS Blog – Comment and Answers

http://themasterterminal.com
•
• YouTube channels – Videos,demos
http://www.youtube.com/user/CICSExplorer
Blog
http://www.youtube.com/CICSfluff

• CICS Facebook
• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=
4907254593

• CICS Hub at the Rational Cobol Café

• http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/caf
e/community/cobol/cics

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Thank You