Extend The Cics Explorer A Better Way To Manage Your Cics

Author : Chris Rayns,Scott Clee,Taku Miura,Shayla Robinson,Yusuke Tamura,John Taylor,Steve Wall,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738434018

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Extend the CICS Explorer: A Better Way to Manage Your CICS by Chris Rayns,Scott Clee,Taku Miura,Shayla Robinson,Yusuke Tamura,John Taylor,Steve Wall,IBM Redbooks Pdf

CICS® ExplorerTM is the latest significant evolution in the management and analysis of your CICS environment. It is a statement of intent from the CICS Development organization, which is determined to ensure you can manage your CICS estate in a simple and easily extensible way, using a combination of the following approaches: Tried and trusted CICS expertise and technology The widely accepted user interfaces and integration power of the open source Eclipse platform Web 2.0 and RESTful programming (this technology underpins the CICS Explorer concept) This IBM® Redbooks® publication shows how you can use the extensible design of CICS Explorer to complement the functionality already provided, with added functionality tailored to the needs of your business. We show you how to perform the following tasks: Install the CICS plug-in SDK into your eclipse environment Develop a simple plug-in for the CICS Explorer Deploy the plug-in into CICS Explorer We provide several useful examples of plug-ins that we developed during the residency using the methodology we describe. The starting point for the book is that you already have CICS Explorer installed and configured with connectivity to your CICS region or CICSPlex®, and that you are looking for ways to customize CICS Explorer.

Author : Chris Rayns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 818404979X

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Extend The Cics Explorer: A Better Way To Manage Your Cics by Chris Rayns Pdf

Author : David Nice,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738453651

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Managing Enterprise-wide Deployment of IBM Explorer for z/OS or CICS Explorer by David Nice,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication describes the set of features that IBM clients use to simplify deployment of the IBM Explorer products in their operating environments. This enables them to give different levels of control to the system administrator, provide different types of experiences for their users, and require different levels of technical knowledge to implement. Before describing the different mechanisms available for deployment and the unique features of each, the author introduces some of the factors that are involved in deployment. He concludes with a comparison chart of the available technologies so that you can determine which is the most appropriate for your situation. This paper is likely to interest the people in your organization who are responsible for planning, managing, and maintaining deployments of IBM z/OS® Explorer and IBM CICS® Explorer software.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Regis David,Yun Peng Ge,Guo Liang Huang,Guan Jun Liu,James O'Grady,Adam Rice,Dennis Weiand,Zhi Qiu Xie,Helen Xue,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738435527

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Introduction to CICS Dynamic Scripting by Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Regis David,Yun Peng Ge,Guo Liang Huang,Guan Jun Liu,James O'Grady,Adam Rice,Dennis Weiand,Zhi Qiu Xie,Helen Xue,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® CICS® Transaction Server Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting embeds and integrates technology from WebSphere® sMash into the CICS TS V4.1 run time, helping to reduce the time and cost of CICS application development. The Feature Pack provides a robust, managed environment for a wide range of situational applications allowing PHP and Groovy developers to create reports, dashboards, and widgets, and integrate CICS assets into mash-ups, and much more. The CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack combines the benefits of scripted, Web 2.0 applications with easy and secure access to CICS application and data resources. The Feature Pack includes a PHP 5.2 run time implemented in JavaTM and with Groovy language support, support for native Java code and access to many additional libraries and connectors to enhance the development and user experience of rich Internet applications. Access to CICS resources is achieved by using the JCICS APIs. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we introduce the Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack, show how to install and customize it, and provide examples for using it.

Author : Rufus Credle,Vikram Manchala,Dana Shelton,Kenichi Yoshimura,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738437507

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IBM Problem Determination Tools for z/OS by Rufus Credle,Vikram Manchala,Dana Shelton,Kenichi Yoshimura,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® Problem Determination (PD) Tools consists of a core group of IBM products that are designed to work with compilers and run times to provide a start-to-finish development solution for the IT professional. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides you with an introduction to the tools, guidance for program preparation to use with them, an overview of their integration, and several scenarios for their use. If an abend occurs during testing, Fault Analyzer enables the programmer to quickly and easily pinpoint the abending location and optionally, the failing line of code. Many times, this information is all the programmer requires to correct the problem. However, it might be necessary to delve a little deeper into the code to figure out the problem. Debug Tool allows the programmer to step through the code at whatever level is required to determine where the error was introduced or encountered. After the code or data is corrected, the same process is followed again until no errors are encountered. However, volume testing or testing with multiple terminals is sometimes required to ensure real-world reliability. Workload Simulator can be used to perform this type of testing. After all of the tests are completed, running the application by using Application Performance Analyzer can ensure that no performance bottlenecks are encountered. It also provides a baseline to ensure that future enhancements do not introduce new performance degradation into the application. This publication is intended for z/OS® application developers and system programmers.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Nicholas Bingell,Gordon Keehn,Lisa Fellows,Tommy Joergensen,Erhard Woerner,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738434971

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IBM CICS Explorer by Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Nicholas Bingell,Gordon Keehn,Lisa Fellows,Tommy Joergensen,Erhard Woerner,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Explorer is the new face of CICS Integration point for CICS tooling with rich CICS views, data, and methods. Are you looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practices to the next generation of technical staff and experts? Do you need to maintain productivity and protect service-levels? CICS ExplorerTM and System z® lead the way to platform simplification. IBM CICS Explorer has a common, intuitive, Eclipse-based environment for architects, developers, administrators, system programmers, and operators. The task-oriented views provide integrated access to a broad range of data and control capabilities, and it also has powerful, context-sensitive resource editors. Integration point for CICS TS, CICS Tools, CICS TG, PD Tools, and Rational® Tools are extensible by independent software vendors (ISV), system integrators (SI), and customers who use our Software Development Kit. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we focus on the new CICS Explorer. The first part of the book is an overview of the CICS Explorer along with all of the CICS Tools' plug-ins. In the second part of the book, we focus on several scenarios in which you can use the CICS Explorer with the CICS Tools plug-ins to resolve various problems.

Author : Chris Rayns,Sarah Bertram,George Bogner,Chris Carlin,Andre Clark,Amy Ferrell,Gordon Keehn,Peter Klein,Ronald Lee,Erhard Woerner,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738436173

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CICS Transaction Server from Start to Finish by Chris Rayns,Sarah Bertram,George Bogner,Chris Carlin,Andre Clark,Amy Ferrell,Gordon Keehn,Peter Klein,Ronald Lee,Erhard Woerner,IBM Redbooks Pdf

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss CICS®, which stands for Customer Information Control System. It is a general-purpose transaction processing subsystem for the z/OS® operating system. CICS provides services for running an application online where, users submit requests to run applications simultaneously. CICS manages sharing resources, the integrity of data, and prioritizes execution with fast response. CICS authorizes users, allocates resources (real storage and cycles), and passes on database requests by the application to the appropriate database manager, such as DB2®. We review the history of CICS and why it was created. We review the CICS architecture and discuss how to create an application in CICS. CICS provides a secure, transactional environment for applications that are written in several languages. We discuss the CICS-supported languages and each language's advantages in this Redbooks publication. We analyze situations from a system programmer's viewpoint, including how the systems programmer can use CICS facilities and services to customize the system, design CICS for recovery, and manage performance. CICS Data access and where the data is stored, including Temporary storage queues, VSAM RLS, DB2, IMSTM, and many others are also discussed.

Author : Hernan Cunico,Rod Ainge,Chris Carlin,Ben Cox,Tsahi Duek,Ezriel Gross,Lydia Hao Yang Li,Subhajit Maitra,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441382

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CICS and DevOps: What You Need to Know by Hernan Cunico,Rod Ainge,Chris Carlin,Ben Cox,Tsahi Duek,Ezriel Gross,Lydia Hao Yang Li,Subhajit Maitra,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an example approach of an agile IT team that implements development and operations (DevOps) capabilities into an IBM CICS® application. Several tools are used to show how teams can achieve transparency, traceability, and automation in their application lifecycle with the assistance of all the stakeholders to deliver high-quality application changes that meet the requirements. The application changes that are built highlight the composable and dynamic nature of using CICS, the Liberty JVM runtime server, and IBM UrbanCodeTM Deploy, which allows developers to get their applications running quickly by using only the programming model features that are required for their applications. The target audience for this publication is IT developers, managers, and architects, and project managers, test managers and developers, and operations managers and developers.

Author : Phil Wakelin,Ahmed Farrag,Steve Hobson,Manuel Jaen,Tommy Joergensen,Thiago Rotta,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738437446

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Architect's Guide to IBM CICS on System z by Phil Wakelin,Ahmed Farrag,Steve Hobson,Manuel Jaen,Tommy Joergensen,Thiago Rotta,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) has been available in various guises for over 40 years, and continues to be one of the most widely used pieces of commercial software. This IBM Redbooks® publication helps application architects discover the value of CICS Transaction Server to their business. This book can help architects understand the value and capabilities of CICS Transaction Server and the CICS tools portfolio. The book also provides detailed guidance on the leading practices for designing and integrating CICS applications within an enterprise, and the patterns and techniques you can use to create CICS systems that provide the qualities of service that your business requires.

Author : Rufus Credle,Mark Cocker,Jenny He,Marianne Mena Heltborg,Manuela Mandelli,Catherine Moxey,Anthony Papageorgiou,Jackie Scott,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738438573

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Event Processing with CICS by Rufus Credle,Mark Cocker,Jenny He,Marianne Mena Heltborg,Manuela Mandelli,Catherine Moxey,Anthony Papageorgiou,Jackie Scott,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This completely refreshed IBM Redbooks® publication provides a detailed introduction to the latest capabilities for business event processing with IBM® CICS® V5. Events make it possible to identify and react to situations as they occur, and an event-driven approach, where changes are detected as they happen, can enable an application or an Enterprise to respond in a much more timely fashion. CICS event processing support was first introduced in CICS TS V4.1, and this IBM Redbooks® publication now covers all the significant enhancements and extensions which have been made since then. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS provides capabilities for capturing application events, which can give insight into the business activities carried out within CICS applications, and system events, which give insight into changes in state within the CICS system. Application events can be generated from existing applications, without requiring any application changes. Simple tooling allows both application and system events to be defined and deployed into CICS without disruption to the system, and the resulting events can be made available to a variety of event consumers. CICS events can amongst other things be used to drive processing within CICS, to populate dashboards that are provided by IBM Business Monitor and to search for patterns in events using IBM Operational Decision Manager. This IBM Redbooks® publication is divided into the following parts: Part 1 introduces event processing. We explain what it is and why you need it, and discuss how CICS makes it easy to both capture and emit events. Part 2 of the book focuses on the details of event processing with CICS. It gives a step-by-step guide to implementing CICS events, along with the environment used in the examples. Part 3 provides some guidance on governance and troubleshooting for CICS events, and describes how to integrate CICS events with IBM Operational Decision Manager and IBM Business Monitor. The Appendices include additional reference information.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Nicholas Bingell,Gordon Keehn,Lisa Fellows,Tommy Joergensen,Erhard Woerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Microsoft Windows (Computer file)
ISBN : OCLC:1105801686

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IBM CICS Explorer by Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Nicholas Bingell,Gordon Keehn,Lisa Fellows,Tommy Joergensen,Erhard Woerner Pdf

IBM® Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Explorer is the new face of CICS Integration point for CICS tooling with rich CICS views, data, and methods. Are you looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practices to the next generation of technical staff and experts? Do you need to maintain productivity and protect service-levels? CICS Explorer and System z® lead the way to platform simplification. IBM CICS Explorer has a common, intuitive, Eclipse-based environment for architects, developers, administrators, system programmers, and operators. The task-oriented views provide integrated access to a broad range of data and control capabilities, and it also has powerful, context-sensitive resource editors. Integration point for CICS TS, CICS Tools, CICS TG, PD Tools, and Rational® Tools are extensible by independent software vendors (ISV), system integrators (SI), and customers who use our Software Development Kit. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we focus on the new CICS Explorer. The first part of the book is an overview of the CICS Explorer along with all of the CICS Tools' plug-ins. In the second part of the book, we focus on several scenarios in which you can use the CICS Explorer with the CICS Tools plug-ins to resolve various problems.

Author : Hernan Cunico,Andreas Hümmer,Jonathan Lawrence,Shayla Robinson,Andre Schreiber,Inderpal Singh,Prabhat Srivastava,Phil Wakelin,Dan Zachary,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441368

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IBM CICS and Liberty: What You Need to Know by Hernan Cunico,Andreas Hümmer,Jonathan Lawrence,Shayla Robinson,Andre Schreiber,Inderpal Singh,Prabhat Srivastava,Phil Wakelin,Dan Zachary,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication, intended for architects, application developers, and system programmers, describes how to design and implement Java web-based applications in an IBM CICS® Liberty JVM server. This book is based on IBM CICS Transaction Server V5.3 (CICS TS) using the embedded IBM WebSphere® Application Server Liberty V8.5.5 technology. Liberty is an asset to your organization, whether you intend to extend existing enterprise services hosted in CICS, or develop new web-based applications supporting new lines of business. Fundamentally, Liberty is a composable, dynamic profile of IBM WebSphere Application Server that enables you to provision Java EE technology on a feature-by-feature basis. Liberty can be provisioned with as little as the HTTP transport and a servlet web container, or with the entire Java EE 6 Web Profile feature set depending on your application requirements. This publication includes a Technology Essentials section for architects and application developers to help understand the underlying technology, an Up-and-Running section for system programmers implementing the Liberty JVM server for the first time, and a set of real-life application development scenarios.

Author : Pradeep Gohil,Julian Horn,Jenny He,Anthony Papageorgiou,Chris Poole,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738442921

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IBM CICS Asynchronous API: Concurrent Processing Made Simple by Pradeep Gohil,Julian Horn,Jenny He,Anthony Papageorgiou,Chris Poole,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers the background and implementation of the IBM CICS® asynchronous API, which is a simple, accessible API that is designed to enable CICS application developers to create efficient asynchronous programs in all CICS-supported languages. Using the API, application developers can eliminate the overhead that is involved in coding and managing homegrown asynchronous solutions, instead using a set of CICS-supported API commands to underpin CICS applications, which are more responsive and robust than ever. Initially, the book reviews the history and motivations of asynchronous processing in computing and the benefits involved when calling external services. It then introduces the asynchronous API itself and its commands. It also provides a range of scenarios, including sample code, that cover everything from the basics of making an asynchronous request to updating existing synchronous program calls, with the goal of illustrating how to harness the CICS asynchronous API to solve real business problems. Later chapters take a deeper dive into the capabilities of the asynchronous API for advanced use cases. Beyond application development, CICS provides a complete solution for system programmers to manage and monitor asynchronous business logic. Thus, the final chapters of this book cover enhancements to CICS monitoring, statistics, trace, and dumps. Using supporting CICS tooling, system programmers have greater insight than ever, with improved transaction tracking capabilities and CICS policies to provide maximum control and optimization of asynchronous processing in CICS environments.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Philip Hale,Em James,Peter Klein,John Tilling,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738436692

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Threadsafe Considerations for CICS by Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Philip Hale,Em James,Peter Klein,John Tilling,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Beginning with IBM® CICS® Version 2, applications can run on TCBs apart from the QR TCB, which has positive implications for improving system throughput and for implementing new technologies inside of CICS. Examples of implementing new technologies include using the IBM MVSTM Java virtual machine (JVM) inside CICS and enabling listener tasks written for other platforms to be imported to run under CICS. The newest release, CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® (CICS TS) V4.2, includes scalability enhancements so that you can perform more work more quickly in a single CICS system. The advantage of this enhancement is that you can increase vertical scaling and decrease the need to scale horizontally, reducing the number of regions that are required to run the production business applications. The scalability enhancements in CICS TS V4.2 fall into two broad areas, which are increased usage of open transaction environment (OTE) and of 64-bit storage. This IBM Redbooks® publication is a comprehensive guide to threadsafe concepts and implementation for IBM CICS. This book explains how systems programmers, applications developers, and architects can implement threadsafe applications in an environment. It describes the real-world experiences of users, and our own experiences, of migrating applications to be threadsafe. This book also highlights the two most critical aspects of threadsafe applications: system performance and integrity.

Author : Klaus Wacker,Ingolf Salm,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738442464

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Migration to CICS Transaction Server for z/VSE V2.1 by Klaus Wacker,Ingolf Salm,IBM Redbooks Pdf

The IBM® CICS® Transaction Server for z/VSE® (CICS TS for z/VSE) 2.1 provides functions to improve application programming, system programming, system management, and data security and availability. With CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1, you can use the extended functionality of Basic Security Manager. CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1 can be administrated by the IBM CICS Explorer® function on a workstation, which allows CICS management in a convenient way. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides information to help you install, tailor, and configure the CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1 product. The book is intended for IBM z/VSE customers and IBM technical personnel who are responsible for planning and migrating to IBM z/VSE 6.1 and CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1. The book also provides information to help you understand the affect of migrating to CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1. It provides detailed guidance and samples for installing and configuring CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1. Also included in the book is a description of the CICS TS for z/VSE 2.1 features and capabilities and the affect of removing obsolete functions. The book also covers security and performance issues and provides samples for first level problem determination through the use of memory dumps or the use of trace tools.