White papers
Service Component Architechture (SCA)
This paper sets out the advantages to be gained from adopting a SOA approach to CICS applications through the use of the SCA technology included in CICS Transaction Server v4.1 and provides an introduction to the concepts involved.
Last updated: 22 Oct 2009
Deploy CICS data Atom feeds into your mashups in minutes
An enormous amount of business data is managed by CICS® applications. Now it makes some of its business assets available as Atom feeds, which can be consumed by standard Web client toolkits and presented to end users, either alone or in combination with data from other servers, to produce composite mashup applications.
Last updated: 04 Oct 2009
Expecting the unexpected: How to manage high peak workloads and maintain your service level agreements
This paper concentrates on the use of the dynamic workload management and operational capabilities of CICSPlex System Manager, along with automation products for implementing systems that can provide highly available applications capable of coping with both predictable and unpredictable demand.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2009
Gaining insight into critical enterprise applications with IBM CICS and business events
The ability to detect events in IBM CICS®application processing, and to emitthose events for consumption in a variety of ways without making changes tothe existing applications, opens up a number of new opportunities forbusinesses.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2009
Achieving business resilience through integrated systems management
Providing low-risk, resilient IT services that can rapidly adapt to business needs while controlling costs is not an easy task. This paper outlines how CICS TS and other complementary products can help you control your environment and comply with regulations and standards.
Last updated: 29 Jun 2009
IBM event processing solutions for Business Risk Management on System z with CICS and WebSphere Business Events
IT managers, solution architects, business analysts and IBM CICS® specialists are often responsible for implementing governance and compliance solutions for enterprise business applications on the IBM System z® platform.
Last updated: 09 Feb 2009
Upgrading Risk and Compliance Management on System z
Delivering enhanced business transparency for mainframe workloads
Last updated: 09 Feb 2009
Exploiting CICS Channels and Containers from Java clients
This paper provides background details on basic concepts for using channels and containers in CICS, along with step by step coding examples when using the ECIRequest class, together with a working set of CICS and Java client samples for use as a standalone Java client.
Last updated: 27 Jan 2009
Why to choose CICS Transaction Server for new IT projects
This IBM® Whitepaper is aimed at information technology (IT) architects, project managers, and other decision makers who are considering their options for new IT projects.
Last updated: 17 Oct 2008
Deploying CICS Web services to preserve IT investments in the banking industry
The IBM SOA reference architecture encourages the reuse of existing IT investment and promotes the reuse of services in current and future systems.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2008
Integrating WebSphere Application Server and CICS using CICS Transaction Gateway
IBM CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) software has been proven over many years to deliver high performing, security-rich and scalable access to CICS applications based on Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards.
Last updated: 16 Apr 2008
CICS and System z working in Harmony (CICS, DB2, IMS WMQ and WAS in a retail scenario)
This paper is aimed at IT architects and managers who need to understand how IBM CICS® Transaction Server can be used in a modern service oriented architecture (SOA) enterprise solution.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2008
Increase the value of CICS applications with WebSphere MQ
This white paper is intended for IT architects and application developers who have an existing investment in the IBM CICS® platform and would like to see how they can get more out of that investment.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2007
Options for integrating CICS applications in an SOA
As an IBM CICS® software user, you probably have a huge investment in CICS applications that play a critical role in your business processes, and must play an equally vital role in your business initiatives.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2007
CICS Transaction Server - A Robust Platform for Java
This white paper discusses the additional new support IBM CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 3.2 provides for running Java™ applications in a high-volume, high-availability transaction-processing environment.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2007
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