The Power of CICS Traces and Metrics September 9, 2025 @ 11:30am ET We will begin this Virtual User Group session with a high-level overview of IBM CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) 6.3, presented by Mark Cocker, CICS TS for z/OS Product Manager at IBM Software. Mark...

Presenter: Saurabh Pandey, Lead Product Manager, BMC Indexes are the heart of efficient SQL and access path in Db2 for z/OS. But when they become bloated due to page splits, they can quietly eat away at your performance, escalate CPU usage, and increase locking...

Join us for a collaborative session of the Db2 for z/OS Virtual User Group—an open forum for practitioners, architects, and DBAs to share knowledge, explore new features, and discuss best practices for managing Db2 in modern mainframe environments. Whether you're...

Colin Pearce is a z/OS Systems Programmer and CICS/TS Systems Programmer of 30 years. Mainframe Training and Software support. See his articles on Planet Mainframe here: https://planetmainframe.com/author/colin-pearce/

  Ezriel Gross is a principal solutions advisor for Rocket Software, specializing in IBM CICS tools. He was formally the CEO of Circle Software (acquired by Rocket Software in 2018), where he specialized in hands-on classes and consulting in CICS, Db2 and...

CICS and Security An introduction into CICS Security. This session focuses on how to secure CICS within RACF. How does security work within CICS? How do you configure it? What’s the SIT parm? This 45-minute session is a basic intro into how to secure CICS and will...

Virtual IMS User Group Meeting - Deal with growing cybersecurity risks and do Real-time and after-the-event IMS analytics, all at the same time Presented by Sahil Gupta and Santosh Belgaonkar, BMC In this session, the speakers will discuss how IMS organizations...