CICS User Group | December 2025 AI and CICSIn today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses demand seamless, efficient, and secure transaction processing to keep up with evolving customer expectations and market dynamics. On IBM Z, a platform renowned for its...
CICS User Group | September 2025 The Power of CICS Traces and MetricsWe 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...
CICS User Group | July 2025 Understanding Transaction Debugging for CICS COBOL ProgramsThis presentation will cover a Transaction Abend resulting in an ASRA abend code issued by CICS. It will discuss the layout and description of the relevant parts of a Transaction...
CICS User Group | May 2025 What’s new in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICSIBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS AI has had more updates in the last 2 years than it has in the last decade or more. Come to this session to learn about the exciting new features and performance improvements...
CICS User Group | April 2025 CICS & SecurityAn 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...
CICS User Group | January 2025 Ansible Automation Platform in action, provisioning z/OS middleware with the latest CICS TS collectionDiscover the power of Ansible Automation Platform as it transforms z/OS middleware provisioning with the latest CICS TS collection....
CICS User Group | December 2024 The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS IntegrationsHorror 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...
CICS User Group | September 2024 CICS Resource Definitions as part of a DevOps PipelineMany organizations already leverage automated DevOps practices for distributed applications, and now many are looking to include z applications in the pipeline. For CICS, developers...
CICS User Group | July 2024 CICS Security in a RACF EnvironmentMark Wilson will cover the basic security settings in a CICS/RACF environment and explain what the parameters mean from a CICS and security perspective. He will also discuss the different configuration...
CICS User Group | May 2024 CICS Interdependency Analyzer in DevopsIn this presentation we will look at how CICS IA can be used to automatically generate reports related to diff aspects of a CICS application in the Devops pipeline, which can then be used to determine...
