The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS Integrations Horror is not constrained to the movies, but happens every day in your CICS environment! We will share common examples of poor and horrific examples of CICS integration which drives up MIPS and degrades response times. Just when...

With a nod to Dr. Suess, this presentation discusses a few Db2 best practices based on experiences I've encountered during my consulting career. It takes a look at actual scenarios (without naming names) to explore situations that can arise in any organization. Some...

Many organizations already leverage automated DevOps practices for distributed applications, and now many are looking to include z applications in the pipeline.  For CICS, developers manage source code and the executable modules, but the systems programmers typically...

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Regulatory and industry standards press for more and more safety around customer and company data. The Pervasive Encryption model with IMS datasets requires some planning. IMS is unique in many ways and keeping the IMS Infrastructure safe is as important as keeping...

CICS Interdependency Analyzer (aka CICS IA for z/OS) is a runtime tool for use with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, that can be used to collect data related to transaction affinity, resource dependency and command flow. CICS IA plugin for CICS Explorer is an...

Virtual IMS User Group Meeting featuring Steve Nathan! Sponsored by BMC