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CICS: 35 Years

Overview 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s
Name: John Graham
Job Role: CICS Business Unit Executive - Final role
IBM start date: 6th July 1970
Length working on CICS: 19 years in total
John Graham

What do you have to do with CICS?
Numerous Roles in CICS from June 1982: First line: CICS/OS/VS 1.6.1 Development Manager, CICS High Availability Manager Second line: CICS Design and Performance Manager Left CICS in 1989, returned in 1982. Returned as CICS WW Marketing Manager and then given the position of CICS Business Unit Executive before retiring in 2003.

What were you doing around 8th July 1969?
Getting ready for my wedding in Perth, Scotland.

Fondest CICS related memory
Helping to turn CICS V1.7.1 in CICS/MVS V2. The first re-priced CICS Version. Renaming CICS/ESA to CICS Transaction Server. The people: CICS Development, CICS Customers, CICS Business Partners.

“If CICS was to disappear tomorrow…..”
...businesses would disappear.
...customers would be mad.
...IBM would be in trouble.

Name something else 35 years old that you still use.
The relationship with my wife.


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