CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer

IBM CICS® Online Transmission Time Optimizer for z/OS V1.2 is a cost-effective optimization solution for customers with large 3270 networks.

CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer improves end-user productivity and increases network utilization through 3270 data stream optimization by:

• Examining outgoing data streams and dynamically compressing them

• Eliminating repetitive characters

• Ensuring that only changed data is sent to the terminals

• Optimizing messages to increase printer speed

• Providing options for dynamic exclusion and inclusion of terminals, programs, and transactions from optimization

• Providing an optional exit for you to change the data stream in the optimized message

• Monitoring its own operation to provide compression status

• Providing data stream error display for comprehensive compression status management

CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer can help:

• Ensures better use of existing network resources and devices

• Operating transparently to users and applications

• Is easy to install, customize and use

New in CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer V1.2

• Data stream error display for improved compression status management

• Improvements in viewing trace data

• New system options to exclude transactions and terminals from optimization more easily

• Additional end-user help on screens

• Improved documentation

CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer for z/OS V2.1 runs with:

• CICS TS for z/OS V3.1 and V3.2 (5655-M15)

• CICS TS for z/OS V2.2 and V2.3 (5697-E93)

• CICS TS for OS/390 V1.3 (5655-147)