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CICS TS V5.4 is announced
IBM CICS Transaction Server has evolved to become the world’s most powerful mixed language application server.
CICS TS V5.4 delivers a number of significant enhancements and capabilities, including Java EE 7 Full Platform support and a new Asynchronous API.
CICS and Java: the perfect partnership
As a first class Java hosting environment, CICS provides both an OSGi JVM server as well as embedded IBM WebSphere Liberty — providing additional JEE capabilities, including the recently announced support for Java EE 7 Full Platform.
Get started writing CICS Java applications today with our series of tutorials and samples.
Recent blogs
Respond to events in real-time through event processing with CICS. This article summarises our support for event processing and highlights new capabilities introduced in CICS TS V5.4.
Continue reading New event processing capabilities with CICS TS V5.4
Being a command that’s run from USS—from a shell—z/OS PT is easy to use as part of a more complicated script. In this short example, we’re going to write a script to be able to remove all containers in the system older than x days.
Continue reading Scripting with z/OS Provisioning Toolkit: Removing Old Containers
Node.js is a server-side JavaScript runtime for rapidly building innovative applications. Over the last 7 years, Node.js has grown in popularity and is now used by developers, ranging from hobbyists to university students, through to production developers in start-ups to large enterprise. Key to the success of Node.js is the over 500,000 packages available* in...
Continue reading IBM SDK for Node.js – z/OS – CICS samples now available
CICS TS 5.4 has introduced support for Policy system rules to provide equivalent function to that provided by CICS system events but with much simpler configuration. This article aims to demonstrate just how easy it is to configure a system rule. Overview In CICS TS 4.2 we introduced support for system events. This helps you...
Continue reading Using CICS policy system rules to monitor system health
CICS TS V5.4 now supports Java Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE) Full Platform. This platform enables developers to write cross-platform applications and host them in CICS, using one of the most popular and community-driven programming languages. CICS has been at the forefront of Java on the mainframe since the late 1990s. Mainframe hardware has evolved...