IBM® WebSphere® ILOG Rules for COBOL generates a COBOL sub-program from the rules that have been externalized and managed in the ILOG Rules Repository. The externalization of business rules provides benefit to your business, as well as improves the efficiency of maintaining your COBOL applications. Corporations today continue to see value in running their core business applications on large-capacity mainframes. An organization's success depends largely upon its ability to respond quickly to today's complex, ever changing markets and regulatory climate. Businesses today need a Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) solution that supports business changes and cycles far more effectively than traditional methods and takes direct advantage of business expertise. This IBM Redpaper™ publication is intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL.

Turn insight into action by engineering IBM System z business applications for compliance. React swiftly and effectively to patterns of events to mitigate risk and respond to opportunities with WebSphere Business Events and CICS Transaction Server.

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. It focuses on the merits of deploying new applications to the System z platform, and in particular, to an environment managed by CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS).

This document is aimed at CICS® application programmers who need to use COMMAREAs larger than the maximum 32k size supported by CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V2. It describes a programming technique using CICS’ Business Transaction Services’ Containers to manipulate and handle data larger than 32k bytes. This technique is referred to as BigCommarea processing.

This white paper focuses on the business challenges faced by the IT development and management teams that are responsible for creating the new applications demanded by their business users. This paper then shows how a formal process combined with some of the System z™ products can help to address these business challenges. A development life cycle is then played out using the IBM Rational® Unified Process, showing the value provided by the products used to develop and test a new application.

This white paper discusses how you can take advantage of the power of WebSphere® Process Server with CICS® Transaction Server to build new processes, take advantage of new channels and drive new business. IBM WebSphere® Process Server is designed to enable you to transform your business processes based on an SOA approach. This solution enables you to enhance business flexibility and IT responsiveness by directly integrating existing business transactions with new business processes.

This IBM Redpaper publication examines performance when using different SOAP message sizes in CICS Web Services. We used a preexisting basic Web Services environment with no message handlers or header handlers. Using WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator (WSWS), we ran a number of simulations using predefined scripts. For more information about WSWS, refer to WebSphere Studio Workload Simulator User's Guide, SC31-6307. We then processed the CICS SMF data using CICS Performance Analyzer (CICS PA) and collated the statistics. For more information about CICSPA, see CICS Performance Analyzer User's Guide, SC34-6307. This paper also reviews a customer scenario, DanskeBank. We provide an overview of the bank's ATM system, and briefly discuss the IFX framework. We detail our use of WebSphere Developer for zSeries (WD/z) to simulate request messages from an ATM, present a performance comparison between optimized and non-optimized schema versions, and cover schema versus container definitions, large fields, and schema complexity. Finally, we provide an example of the impact of mapping levels.

This whitepaper contains a performance test of Java™ - CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V2.2 transactions on zSeries®. It demonstrates the performance, scalability, and reliability of Java programs running in CICS.

This paper describes how CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V2.2 combined with enhanced compilers, debugging, and analysis tools can give your CICS application developers and system maintenance team new capabilities that help save time and increase overall productivity.

CICS® e-business support enables end-users at Web browsers or network computers to access CICS application programs and transactions using standard internet protocols. This white paper provides a technical overview of the CICS® technology choices available to enable this on the VSE/ESA™ platform, including CICS Web Support.