July 2025 CICS Highlights: AI, APIs, and the Rise of Modern Mainframe
Planet Mainframe brought together thought leaders and experts to celebrate CICS’s 55th birthday. From AI-infused monitoring to API turbocharging, CICS…
Understanding and overcoming common CICS challenges
IT environments are increasingly complex to manage, and overburdened administrators are tasked with refining them, keeping them secure, and preventing…
Mainframe Security Isn’t What It Used to Be – How CICS and LE Are Fighting Back
This article updates a 2022 piece in Cheryl Watson’s Tuning Letter, “LE Non-Executable HEAPS and CICS User Experiences” by Mario…
Improving the Mainframe User Experience: A Company’s Journey to a Modern Web Interface
Marsh McLennan’s journey to transform a crucial 3270 application into a modern web interface Modernizing business applications is a critical…
The Many Charms of COBOL
During my studies in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), also known as East Germany, I immersed myself in the…
Taking the mainframe back to the future!
By Tim Leader With its unrivalled stability, security and power the mainframe has long offered enormous benefits to the global…
Updates to ODP Dashboards, improved Instana Integration and Machine Learning direction
OMEGAMON Tech Summit – live in Milan, Rome and Madrid Before I get into the product update details, there are…
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CICS is used on 80% of Mainframe Systems across the world. It is known as CICS Transaction Server. Application Programmers…