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Libraries such as JCICS, needed create CICS Java applications, are now available in Maven Central. Find out how to use them in your Maven or Gradle builds.
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CICS Performance Analyzer is the premier performance reporting and analysis tool for CICS Transaction Server. The current version is CICS PA V5.4, and this has been enhanced via PTF for APAR PH15012. RFE 116861. Prior to this enhancement, CICS CMF count field CURTASKS (DFHTASK A434) is defined in CICS PA as a character field (DFHTASK...
If you’re a member of our design partnership as part of the Z design forum, you’ll know we’re hard at work on improvements for CICS TS application developers. The first thing that’s come out of that initiative is our brand new Maven plug-in, designed to stream-line the process of authoring CICS bundles for Java applications....
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This blog describes a solution to avoid HTTP 404 errors when a CICS region starts up due to Liberty accepting HTTP requests before an application is ready.
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CICS Configuration Manager is the premier configuration tool for CICS Transaction Server. The current version is CICS CM V5.4 and this has been enhanced via PTF for APAR PH09609. As more CICS sites start to exploit the rich functions in CICS Configuration Manager V5.4, new enhancements are being requested. As a result of Request for...
This Z Trial takes you through a 30 minute scenario where you can try using Node.js in CICS. It will take you through the steps to package a sample Node.js web application into a CICS bundle and deploy it into IBM CICS Transaction Server.
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CICS Performance Analyzer is the premier performance reporting and analysis tool for CICS Transaction Server. The current version is CICS PA V5.4 and this has been enhanced via PTF for APAR PH08968. The following enhancements are introduced by CICS PA V540 APAR PH08968 RFE 116861. Prior to this enhancement, statistical values for Form based Performance...
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One of the most common questions after system administrators experience CICS Explorer is "what is the best way to deploy this to my users?". CICS Explorer is software that must run on the end user's laptop, which is at odds with the server-based software that our system administrators are more commonly used to dealing with.
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