by Grant Shayler IBM (UK)

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Got CICS? Are you using CICS Explorer? Want to know how to work with CICS operational resources and definitions without using cryptic transaction codes? How about working with CICS related z/OS artifacts like datasets, zFS, JCL, spool files etc without using a 3270 Emulator? Then come along to this session and see how using CICS Explorer can make your (CICS) life better. The session will cover what you need to run CICS Explorer, how to set it up and introduce you to basic functions of both the System Management (SM) and z/OS perspectives.

Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer.

by Grant Shayler IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S222 - CICS Explorer Plug-ins

If you are running CICS Explorer, or have learnt the basics of CICS Explorer from Session S221, then this session will show you how to exploit the plug in capabilities of CICS Explorer and IBM tools, so that you can get the most out of CICS. This session will show you where to get CICS Explorer plug-ins, how to install them, and provide an introduction to selected CICS Explorer plugins.

Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer.

by Catherine Moxey IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S223 - CICS and Scalability

This session covers aspects of CICS functionality that provide scalability within and across CICS systems. These include multi-processor exploitation using the open transaction environment and CICS threadsafety, and functions for capacity and performance.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Strategy and Planning, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has more than 20 years' development experience with IBM, primarily in CICS and System z but also in WebSphere Application Server web services technologies. She is the architect for the Event Processing support in CICS Transaction Server, and an active member of the Event Processing Technical Society. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences

by Grant Shayler IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

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CICS Deployment Assistant (CICS DA) is the newest member of the CICS Tools portfolio. This session will provide you with an overview of the capabilities of CICS Deployment Assistant and show you how you can quickly and easily discover your CICS assets and how to use CICS DA to create a new CICS.

Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer. Grant has rather bad habit of providing information to Nick at the last minute. However this helps to keep Nick on his toes, and Grant is sure that the added stress ultimately helps Nick to write song lyrics with deeper meanings..

Audience: ?? Level: Basic CICS Deployment Assistant (CICS DA) is the newest member of the CICS Tools portfolio. This session will provide you with an overview of the capabilities of CICS Deployment Assistant and show you how you can quickly and easily discover your CICS assets and how to use CICS DA to create a new CICS. Grant is a traditional CICS Sysprog at heart. He is the same age as CICS and has been working with CICS since he left high school. The first CICS transaction he used was CSMT on CICS/VS 1.6. Many many years later, Grant is currently working with the CICS Explorer and CICS Tools Development teams in Hursley UK. Grants favourite CICS subjects are CICS Systems Management, CICS Security and CICS Explorer. Grant has rather bad habit of providing information to Nick at the last minute. However this helps to keep Nick on his toes, and Grant is sure that the added stress ultimately helps Nick to write song lyrics with deeper meanings...

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S225 - CICS High Availability and Workload Management

This talk takes a fresh look at the Workload management facilities provided by CICSPlex Systems Manager and explains how they can be integrated with the TCP/IP load balancing technology provided by Communications Server for z/OS to create a highly available CICSPlex configuration. The talk will discuss how to exploit the TCP/IP Port Sharing, VIPA, and Sysplex Distributor functions of Communications Server, together with the CICSPlex SM, and will include the latest information on CICSPlex SM WLM support for even distribution of work between LPARs and simplified workload management of DPL requests preventing deadlock situations,

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks.

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S226 - CICS IP Interconnectivity

As part of the multi-release IP interconnectivity (IPIC) initiative, CICS TS V4.x now provides the facility to use TCP/IP instead of SNA for CICS intercommunication functions. This session will provide in-depth guidance on how to configure CICS to fully exploit the new IP interconnectivity (IPIC) support, and provides details on how the qualities of security, transactionality and connection management are best managed along with a summary of the performance benefits possible when moving from SNA to IP.

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks.

by Fraser Bohm IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S231 - How to debug web services on CICS

This session briefly reviews Web services processing and configuration requirements, before discussing detailed diagnostic techniques and approaches to identifying problems. The session also discusses the type of documentation that is useful for observing Web services processing errors. We will follow a detailed example of debugging an issue to provide context and setting. The session will also explore additional tools and techniques beyond the standard CICS toolset which are specifically useful for Web Services issues including those available in Eclipse and RD/z.

Fraser is the Development Lead for CICS Transaction Server, having worked on the CICS TS product for over 14 years. Prior to becoming the Development Lead he was the technical lead for Web Services and SOA Technologies in the CICS team.

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to presentation S232 - SOA enablement with CICS

CICS has a long history as an on-line transaction processor, this presentation reviews the different CICS runtimes available from procedural COBOL to object orientated Java and dynamic scripting and summarises how they can be used to exploit existing CICS business logic with an SOA. It then provides an overview of how different customers are integrating CICS applications with new WebSphere applications and using CICS in different ways with other key IBM middleware products.

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks.

by Catherine Moxey IBM (UK)

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Link to presentation S233 - CICS support for Event Processing

This session takes a fresh look at support in CICS for events and event processing. The session will explain how you can gain business insight and value by emitting events from CICS, including how events are specified and deployed to CICS, options for emitting the events, the possible consumers of events from CICS, and scenarios in which events can be used.

Catherine Moxey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in CICS Strategy and Planning, based at IBM Hursley near Winchester. Catherine has more than 20 years' development experience with IBM, primarily in CICS and System z but also in WebSphere Application Server web services technologies. She is the architect for the Event Processing support in CICS Transaction Server, and an active member of the Event Processing Technical Society. Catherine frequently speaks at GSE, Impact and Transaction and Messaging conferences

by Phil Wakelin IBM (UK)

Audience: ?? Level: Basic

Link to the presentation S234 - Java and CICS JVM Servers

This session takes a tour of the new multi-threaded JVM server environment in CICS TS V4.x and the facilities available for developing and deploying CICS Java applications. Information is provided on the systems management facilities and tuning tools available for exploitation of the latest IBM Java 6 Runtime Environment, along with a discussion of how to exploit the latest Eclipse development tooling together with the CICS Java environment.

Phil Wakelin is a member of the CICS Strategy and Planning team in IBM Hursley, UK. He is responsible for defining and planning new CICS functionality including CICS interconnectivity and Java functionality and is the author of many white papers, SupportPacs and IBM Redbooks