Overview
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS v4.1 is a modern, dependable, and cost effective application platform.

This version brings new levels of ease-of-use and flexibility to meet the needs of the next generation of business users. It will assist its users in their activities directed at:
Competing for new opportunities by gaining insight into business processes and responding by modifying key business applications quickly and with confidence. Business flexibility: Making it easier to create, extend, and reuse applications quickly, to meet changing business needs
Complying with corporate, industry and government policies to manage business risk of critical business applications. Governance and compliance: Ensuring, and demonstrating, effective management control over business applications and IT facilities
Controlling costs by simplifying IT infrastructure and improving development and operations productivity through easier-to-use interfaces and functions. IT Simplification: Helping IT staff to perform their tasks more effectively, while assuming a mix of skill levels
New technologies can enable businesses to respond quickly and effectively, allowing them to capture emerging opportunities as markets recover. CICS TS v4.1 delivers important new function to help businesses meet the demands of increased regulatory scrutiny, address changing demographics, and position themselves to take advantage of new growth opportunities
The CICS Explorer - "the new face of CICS" - introduces a new graphical tooling interface for CICS, providing significantly enhanced levels of usability and integration. The CICS Explorer enables you to create customizable task-oriented views and provides an intuitive, easy-to-use way of managing one or more CICS regions.
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Edition comparison
CICS TS is an advanced mainframe transaction processing solution that provides powerful and flexible support for On Demand Businesses.
Additional products, services and solutions
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CICS TG delivers a high-performing, security-rich, and scalable method of SOA access to CICS, requiring minimal changes to CICS.



