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5 unusual facts about CICS


CICS

This allowed CICS transactions to participate as clients in a POX or REST conversation.

In 1974, CICS development responsibility was shifted to IBM's Hursley, United Kingdom Laboratory, where development work continues today.

In 1980, IBM executives failed to heed Ben Riggins' strong suggestions that IBM should provide their own EBCDIC-based operating system and integrated-circuit microprocessor chip for use in the IBM Personal Computer as a CICS intelligent terminal (instead of the incompatible Intel chip, and immature ASCII-based Microsoft 1980 DOS).

This allowed CICS transactions to participate as servers in a POX or REST conversation.

KICX

CICS-FM 91.7, a radio station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada that uses "KICX" as a branding


CICS Transaction Gateway

IBM CICS Transaction Gateway provides secure access to CICS from Java, Java EE, .NET Framework, C and C++ applications, using Internet protocols (for example TCP/IP).

Dynamic loading

IBM's strategic transaction processing system, CICS (1970s onwards) uses dynamic loading extensively both for its kernel and for normal application program loading.

IBM 3767

They will attach to IBM System/360 or IBM System/370 mainframe computers through IBM 3705 communications controllers, and supported by 3705 Network Control Program and mainframe software such as CICS and IMS.

IBM Advanced Program-to-Program Communication

Major IBM software products have included support for APPC, including CICS, DB2, CIM, WebSphere MQ, VM, and MVS.

Instruction step

OLIVER (CICS interactive test/debug) for IBM CICS, allowed both instruction and HLL statement stepping

PL/I

Application subsystems for database and transaction processing (CICS and IMS and Oracle on System 370) and application generators became the focus of mainframe users' application development.

Tara Lynne O'Neill

She speaks fluent Irish and appeared in dramas in Irish-speaking drama "Teenage Cics"

Z/Journal

Its publisher, Thomas Communications, Inc., also publishes the Xephon Update series of mainframe-based newsletters on DB2, CICS, z/OS (formerly MVS), WebSphere (formerly MQ), TCP/SNA, RACF, and AIX.


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