The z/OS middleware configuration tool (zconfig) has now reached its 0.7.0 open beta . Capable of discovering and applying middleware configuration and moving teams toward a configuration-as-code ...

In this article we explain how CICS can provide zero online downtime to established applications which use VSAM as their data store. The scheme uses a CICS Global User Exit (GLUE) to ...

Your Journey to Modern CICS Development: Getting Started with VS Code Transform your CICS development experience with Visual Studio Code - A practical guide for mainframe developers ...

CICS Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) provides batch jobs to unload Command Flow data into CSV files for offline analysis and reporting. The CIUUDB4 job generates QSAM ...

CICS Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA) command flow reporting has been enhanced with two new fields - PTTRANSID and PTTASKID. PTTASKID (data-area) Retrieves the ...

The AI agents for CICS Transaction Server, delivered with the latest IBM watsonx Assistant for Z release provide rapid access to expert knowledge and best practice guidance from the CICS ...

Existing functionality of CICS VR logger connect: CICS VR (CICS VSAM Recovery) batch logging provides logging of updates made to VSAM data sets by batch jobs when data sets ...

In this blog post, we will go into some more detail about how the process works and what benefits this approach gives us when used with our CICS Transaction Server agents for Z. Didn't ...