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What is CICS

Get to know the CICS Transaction Server

Isabel Arnold
IBM Technical Sales zSoftware
© 2006 IBM Corporation
isabel.arnold@de.ibm.com
 What is CICS

CICS – what does it stand for?

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How it is pronounced

In Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Belgium and some

other countries, CICS is pronounced the same as the word
kicks.

US - usually pronounced by reciting each letter (C-I-C-S)

Germany - pronounced zicks and, less often, kicks

Brazil, Peru and Mexico - pronounced sicks

Spain - pronounced thicks

Italy - pronounced chicks

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Business Transactions

Medical Services

Entertainment

Travel

Industrial

Many Users
Shared Data

Repetitive
Data Integrity

Short Interactions
Low Cost/Transaction
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Batch and Online Transactions

Batch Processing Online Transaction

Processing

Scheduled for specific Initiated by end user

Initiation timeJob Control when services required
Language

Input Program Input is batch Input supplied by end

of transactions user for single request
output
often
Output already Delayed output Immediate output
out-dated

Resouce access Usually exclusive file Shared file, exclusive

control record control

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Business Application Requirements

Business Logic Multithreading Complex

Locking Logging
Administration Scheduling requirements to
Exception Handling Application Security run in shared,
Data Integrity Connectivity
Performance Queue Management multiuser
environment

Communications Database Manager

Operating System

Hardware

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Business Application Requirements

Business Logic Application

Naming Multithreading
Locking Logging
Administration Scheduling
Exception Handling CICS Security
Recovery Connectivity
Performance Queue Management
End-to-End Integrity Time Control

Communications Database Manager

Operating System

Hardware

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How CICS usually looked

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Initiating CICS Transactions

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The CICS Family

CICS Transaction Server for
CICS Connectors

z/OS  CICS Universal Client

CICS Transaction Server for • Linux on z/OS or Intel, Windows
VSE/ESA  CICS Transaction Gateway

TXSeries for multiplatforms • z/OS, Linux on z/OS or Intel,
• AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows
 AIX
 SOAP for CICS
 HP-UX • not required with CICS TS V3.1
 Solaris
CICS Tools
 Windows  Subsystem management
 Enterprise integration

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CICS Evolution

Modernize
Reuse Existing Application
Business Logic Interfaces

Replace 3270
Extend Existing
Networks with CICS
Applications Using
Web Browsers Family Modern Tools
and GUIs

Bring Applications Efficiently Create

to the Web New Applications

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CICS Application Server today

30 Billion transactions/day)
$1Bn/day (~ Nasdaq)
36 years
20,000 customers
invested in
worldwide
Applications
5000 packages from 950,000 programmers
2000 ISVs earn their living
from CICS
30 million users
Used by 490 + of IBM''s
90% of the Fortune top 500 customers
500 use CICS
$1Trillion 50,000 Over 950,000 concurrent
applications CICS/390 users/system
....IDC licenses

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