This month, the Planet Mainframe Virtual Mainframe User Group welcomed Claire Connor, Principal Pre-Sales Consultant at Geniez AI, for a practical look at how generative AI can support CICS professionals. The conversation focused on a familiar operational challenge:...
How monitoring and statistics data turn performance symptoms into evidence When something slows down in a CICS environment, the conversation often starts with a phrase every systems programmer (sysprog) has heard before: "CICS feels stuck." The problem with that...
GSE Nordic Conference 2026, HelsinkiEnergy, insight, innovation After the success of the 2025 event in Gothenburg, the 2026 GSE Nordic conference continued a similar vein and delivered a packed and varied programme - spanning modern mainframe technology, AI...
From Brazil's "six" to Italy's "chicks" and Britain's "kicks," one of the mainframe's most famous technologies has inspired decades of linguistic creativity.They Call It "Six" in Brazil The Portuguese word for "six" is seis in Brazil and Portugal. According to...
While most people you know probably haven’t even heard of CICS, anyone that banks, travels, or does business in the modern world has benefited from this cornerstone of enterprise transaction processing. Evolving alongside changes in hardware, operating systems,...
The latest Planet Mainframe CICS Virtual User Group, sponsored by Broadcom Mainframe Software and DataKinetics, delivered exactly what the title promised — a double feature that moved from intelligent region analysis all the way through to full vSAM data recovery....
If you want to use AI with VSEn, you do not have to replace your OLTP/CICS applications first. You have to make it accessible. That is exactly where VSEn Connectors become strategic: they connect proven host transactions with REST, SOAP, MQ, Java, database access, and...
Organizations increasingly want faster, more intelligent business decisions. For enterprises running critical workloads on CICS, artificial intelligence (AI) offers a practical way to improve transaction processing, automate decisions, and uncover patterns hidden...
A look at how some z/OS shops have closed their batch windows by pushing batch I/O through the owning CICS region.Most CICS shops I have worked in carry the same operational habit: keep a nightly window open so that batch can update VSAM files without colliding with...
IBM has an undocumented fix to the CICS WEB interface that can optimize throughput and response time while also saving CPU. This article explains how to make it work for you. In the course of my current project, I had the pleasure of working with Ole Olsen at JN Data...
