According to a 2011 “IBM Tech Trends Report,” these are the top concerns:
1. Security/Privacy (53 percent)
2. Cost of developing for multiplatform (52 percent)
3. Integrating cloud service with mobile (51 percent)…
The IT industry is undergoing a mobile transformation as the explosion of mobile devices in the marketplace has driven service providers, such as banks and utility companies, to offer mobile applications. The proliferation of mobile devices brings a new raft of challenges to application developers as they do battle with competing platforms, frameworks and technologies—and this is just on the mobile device. This doesn’t even begin to address the additional complexity of connecting to existing enterprise services, many built long before mobile devices appeared on the scene…
Batch processing is traditionally used for reconciling and reporting transactions at the end of the day, week, month or quarter. It’s used in many business activities from payment processing to bill-ing, stock control, credit scoring, interest calculations and more. Batch applications have proved over the years to be an efficient, reliable method for bulk processing of updates to data…
This series is intended to help new CICS support people understand the basics of the product and how it has evolved. It covers basic concepts, underlying components that may not be intuitively obvious and daily support issues. For more information about this article series and a list of what readers should already know, see the first article at http://entsys.me/q1hhi. To read the most recent article in this series, go to http://entsys.me/5syv6…
Wrapper programs around the WebSphere MQ (WMQ) interface have become ubiquitous. They range from small programs that perform only single function calls using business application-provided parameters to highly complex applications that abstract the entire process, from queue identification to setting all the options based on previously identified application design specifications…
This series is intended to help new CICS support people understand the basics of the product and how it has evolved. It covers basic concepts, underlying components that may not be intuitively obvious, and daily support issues. For more information about this article series and a list of what readers should already know, see the first article at http://entsys.me/q1hhi…
First introduced in CICS TS 3.1, CICS Web Services support offers a powerful tool that lets CICS application programs access the Web as both consumers and providers of Web-based services. As with any new technology, Web services bring opportunity and confusion; initial implementation comes with a steep learning curve. To reduce this learning curve and encourage the use of Web services, IBM supplies the CICS Web Services Assistant…
This series is intended to help new CICS support people understand the basics of the product and how it has evolved. It covers basic concepts, underlying components that may not be intuitively obvious, and daily support issues. For more information about this article series and a list of what readers should already know, see the first article at http://entsys.me/q1hhi…
IBM CICS Explorer was introduced in November 2008 for z/OS. Now this feature is available for CICS Transaction Server (TS) on z/VSE. This enhancement provides services that let you display CICS status information on a workstation in a compact, complete way…
This series of articles is intended to help new CICS support people understand the basics of the product, and how it has evolved into the strong, robust software it is. It’s intended to help with basic concepts, underlying components that may not be intuitively obvious, and daily issues that may help everyone support the product. It targets an audience of people who come from distributed systems (UNIX, etc.), recent college graduates with no (or limited) z/OS experience, and applications developers moving into the systems arena…
