CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2 appeared, bringing CICS into the 21st. century. A major new theme was support for Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJBs), which was developed through successive releases. CICS also moved to support another modern technology in the SOAP interface, meeting a strong customer need for XML-enablement. Despite new products and technologies from both IBM and competitive companies, CICS continues its central role in a high proportion of the world's major businesses.
2002: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.2 is made available
The V2.2 release of the CICS Transaction Server range offers:
2002
Enhanced support for Enterprise Java™, and session bean support that conforms to the J2EE™ Enteprise JavaBeans™ (EJB) architecture.
Improved capability for application development, network connectivity and systems management.
An improved application development model for both new and traditional applications, providing for close integration with the integarted development environments (IDEs) of choice.
2003: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V2.3
The latest release of the CICS Transaction Server continues the themes that have applied in the preceding releases of support for e-business applications, support for Java™, and enhancements to functions used by procedural programming. New functions available in this release include:
Improvements to Java™ support, at V1.4 level, and to JVM infrastructure.
The CCI Connector for CICS TS.
Extensions to JCICS Web Support.
Enhancements to support of Enterprise JavaBeans™, including performance improvements.
New facilities for interactive debugging of CICS application programs.
New security capabilities for IIOP.
Workload balancing of 3270 Bridge via CICSPlex SM.
Improvements to the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface.
The ability to cancel suspended or looping tasks.
2004: TXSeries V5.1 is released
The latest release of TXSeries includes a Statement of Direction for CICS for Linux™. CICS celebrates its 35th Anniversary.