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CICS: 35 Years

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Name: Nick Garrod
Job Role: Product Marketing Manager for CICS Transaction Server
IBM start date: 23rd July 1979
Length working on CICS: 16 years
Nick Garrod

What do you have to do with CICS?
I have responsibilities for Marketing the CICS Transaction Server both internally and externally.

What were you doing around 8th July 1969?
Playing with my birthday present (a Hot Wheels set) whilst my parents watched Charles Windsor get invested at Prince of Wales.

Fondest CICS related memory
Meeting customers and business partners at conferences who have the same passion for CICS that I have.

“If CICS was to disappear tomorrow…..”
...I'd withdraw to my limit from every account I possibly could and run up huge credit card debt, today, safe in the knowledge that I'd never need to repay it.

Name something else 35 years old that you still use.
Abbey Road, The Beatles
Boeing® 747


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