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IBM's Customer Information Control System, CICS

CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a transaction processing system developed by IBM. It allows users to perform transactions and access data on IBM mainframe systems. CICS grew out of the need to handle interactive transactions and operates across several IBM platforms and operating systems using various programming languages. Under CICS, a user's transaction request is linked to a program via a transaction ID, which CICS then loads and runs using its system services that control execution and resource usage.

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IBM's Customer Information Control System, CICS

CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a transaction processing system developed by IBM. It allows users to perform transactions and access data on IBM mainframe systems. CICS grew out of the need to handle interactive transactions and operates across several IBM platforms and operating systems using various programming languages. Under CICS, a user's transaction request is linked to a program via a transaction ID, which CICS then loads and runs using its system services that control execution and resource usage.

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IBM’s Customer Information

Control System, CICS


Art Hendela, President
Hendela System Consultants, Inc.
Little Falls, NJ
1-973-890-0324
WWW.HENDELA.COM
[email protected]
Your Web Database Experts
What is a Transaction?
• A transaction has four properties: It is
“Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, & Durable”.
• Atomic - A unit of work that succeeds or fails.
• Consistent - System restored to a constant
state after completion.
• Isolated - one transaction does not impact
another, even if done at the same time.
• Durable - A committed transaction is
permanent.
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CICS History
• 1968 - Package developed by Michigan Bell and IBM
on OS/360
• 1971 - CICS available for DOS & DOSE
• 1973 - Development moved to Hursley, England
• 1987 - CICS/VM introduced
• 1992 - CICS/400 version for AS/400
• 1996 - CICS Web Interface Product

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CICS Hardware &
Operating Systems
• IBM zSeries 900 - z/OS
• IBM S/390 - OS/390, MVS, VSE
• IBM AS/400 - OS/400
• IBM RS/6000 - AIX (Unix)
• PC Server - Windows NT/2000, OS/2
• The most popular is the S/390 using OS/390
or MVS

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CICS Programming
Languages
• Assembler
• COBOL
• PL/I
• Rexx
• C/C++
• JAVA

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CICS Organization
• CICS Management Services
• Data Management Services
• Application Programming Interface
• Basic Mapping Support
• Terminal Control Services

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CICS Service Diagram
CICS OS/390
VSAM File Control

DB2 SQL Application


Programming Application
Interface Program
IMS DL/I

Terminal Basic
Control Mapping Maps
Support

(VTAM,SNA,TCP/IP)

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CICS Program Invocation

CICS finds CICS finds


User Enters
TRANS-ID in PCT program name
TRANS-ID
to get program name in PPT

CICS loads program


CICS runs program
into memory/
in address space
starts program
TRANS-ID = Transaction Identifier
PCT = Program Control Table
PPT= Processing Program Table
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CICS Example - Screen 1

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CICS Example - Screen 2

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CICS Example - Screen 3

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CICS Example - Screen 4

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Summary
• CICS grew from the need to handle interactive
transactions
• CICS operates on many different IBM compatible
hardware platforms using a variety of languages.
• CICS uses Service programs to control execution and
use of system resources.
• A CICS user sends a TRANS-ID to begin the program
execution.

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Glossary [Ankrum]

• ACID - Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable: transaction properties.


• BMS - Basic Mapping Support: For definition and access to formatted screens.
• CICS - Customer Information Control System.
• CMS - Conversational Monitor System: An interactive subsystem for VM.
• DB2 - Database 2, IBM’s relational database manager.
• DL/I - Data Language / I: General purpose database control language.
• DOS - Disk Operating System: An early IBM operating system for small mainframes or the original
operating system for IBM compatible PCs.
• IMS - Information Management System: IBM Product with an OLTP and hierarchical database manager.
• MVS - Multiple Virtual Storage: Top of the line IBM operating system before OS/390.
• OLTP - On-line Transaction Processing.
• OS/390 - Open System 390: latest operating system for IBM System/390’s.
• SNA - System Network Architecture: IBM’s proprietary network protocol.
• SQL - Structured Query Language: interface to access relational databases.
• TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
• VM - Virtual Machine: IBM Mainframe operating system to allow multiple operating systems to run on one
machine simultaneously.
• VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method.
• VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method.
• Additioanl definitions may be found at:
http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Library/documentation/websphere/WAS-
EE/en_US/html/glossary/cicsglos.htm

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References
• Antrim, T. Scott, “The Evolution of CICS 30 Years Old and Still Modern.
www.cobolreport.com/columnists/tscott/part1.html - part4.html, May, 2001.
• Comaford, Christine, “Managing Transactions is a Serious Business”. PC Week,
March 20, 1995 12(11), pg 19(1).
• Donofrio, Phyllis. “CICS-A Programmer’s Reference”, McGraw-Hill, 1991.
• Horswill, John & Hursley CICS Development Team, “Designing &
Programming CICS Applications”, O’Reilly, 2000.
• Hudders, Eugene S. “CICS-A guide to Internal Structure”, John Wiley & Sons,
1994.
• IBM, “CICS”, http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ts/cics/, 2001.
• Lowe, Doug, “The CICS Programmer’s Desk Reference”, Mike Murach &
Associates, 2nd Ed, 1992.
• Menendez, Raul & Doug Lowe. “Murach’s CICS for the COBOL Programmer”,
Mike Murach & Associates, 2001.
• Nusphere Tech Notes, “ACID Transactions”
www.nusphere.com/products/library/acid_transactions.htm,

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