Welcome to CICS

CICS is a family of mixed language application servers that provide industrial-strength, online transaction management and connectivity for mission-critical applications.More About CICS

The CICS V5 portfolio of products are designed to help you do more, with less. With key enhancements in the areas of: Service Agility, Operational Efficiency and Cloud with DevOps.

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Customers succeeding with CICS

Bankdata

Bankdata modernised their IT infrastructure with Java and CICS, opening the door for new projects and services.

China Construction Bank

Through performance tuning, CCB are able to handle a 10x transaction increase since 2010 in their stride.

Bankwest

Learn how Bankwest enabled digital transformation by exposing and extending their core banking system running CICS and Liberty.

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April 7, 2016

Six Cool Things you can do with the CICS DA RESTful API

John Taylor

How you can use CICS DA through its RESTful API to make better use of your existing assets to make your environment more agile and reactive

March 31, 2016

Consuming CICS Events in ODM Decision Server Insights

CATHERINE MOXEY

Discover how IBM ODM Advanced Decision Server Insights consumes events emitted by CICS in the ‘DSIE’ format. The post illustrates this with a scenario based on rewarding loyal catalog shoppers.

March 30, 2016

Emitting CICS Events for ODM Decision Server Insights

CATHERINE MOXEY

Learn how to emit events from CICS Transaction Server in the new ‘DSIE’ format, for consumption by ODM Decision Server Insights. This post includes a worked example based on a catalog shopping scenario.

March 24, 2016

“Did you say Mainframe?” podcast and Made with z System Stories new pages now available!

Samantha Catling

Find out about the new pages available to you on the CICS DevCenter for “Did you say Mainframe?” podcasts and also our Made with z Systems stories!

March 11, 2016

Java for CICS – Developing RESTful web services in Liberty with JAX-RS

PHILIP WAKELIN

This article explains how to build and deploy a RESTful service into a CICS Liberty JVM server based on the WebSphere Liberty JAX-RS feature