Ibm Cics Interdependency Analyzer

Author : Em James,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441177

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IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer by Em James,IBM Redbooks Pdf

The IBM® CICS® Interdependency Analyzer (CICS IA®) is a runtime tool for use with IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®. CICS IA allows both system programmers and application developers to get an understanding of the relationships and dependencies of your CICS applications and the environment on which they run. By analyzing data collected by CICS IA, you can make changes to your environment in a safe and controlled but timely manner to address changing demands on your business applications. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we first provide a detailed overview of what CICS IA is and what business issues it addresses before we review how to configure CICS IA to collect the data that you require with the minimum provenance impact. We then show how you can analyze this data to assist with day-to-day application changes and major projects such as application onboarding.

Author : Em James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : CICS (Computer system)
ISBN : OCLC:949229227

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IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer by Em James Pdf

Author : Chris Rayns
Publisher : IBM.Com/Redbooks
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0738490946

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CICS Interdependency Analyzer by Chris Rayns Pdf

Author : Phil Wakelin,Ahmed Farrag,Steve Hobson,Manuel Jaen,Tommy Joergensen,Thiago Rotta,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Ian Burnett,Graham Rawson,Mike Brooks,Manuela Mandelli,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738457932

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IBM CICS Performance Series: CICS TS for z/OS V5 Performance Report by Ian Burnett,Graham Rawson,Mike Brooks,Manuela Mandelli,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM Redbooks® publication gives a broad understanding of several important concepts that are used when describing IBM CICS Transaction Server (TS) for IBM z/OS (CICS TS) performance. This publication also describes many of the significant performance improvements that can be realized by upgrading your environment to the most recent release of CICS TS. This book targets the following audience: Systems Architects wanting to understand the performance characteristics and capabilities of a specific CICS TS release. Capacity Planners and Performance Analysts wanting to understand how an upgrade to the latest release of CICS TS affects their environment. Application Developers wanting to design and code highly optimized applications for deployment into a CICS TS environment. This book covers the following topics: A description of the factors that are involved in the interaction between IBM z® Systems hardware and a z/OS software environment. A definition of key terminology that is used when describing the results of CICS TS performance benchmarks. A presentation of how to collect the required data (and the methodology used) when applying Large Scale Performance Reference (LSPR) capacity information to a CICS workload in your environment. An outline of the techniques that are applied by the CICS TS performance team to achieve consistent and accurate performance benchmark results. High-level descriptions of several key workloads that are used to determine the performance characteristics of a CICS TS release. An introduction to the open transaction environment and task control block (TCB) management logic in CICS TS, including a reference that describes how several configuration attributes combine to affect the behavior of the CICS TS dispatcher. Detailed information that relates to changes in performance characteristics between successive CICS TS releases, covering comparisons that relate to CICS TS V4.2, V5.1, V5.2, V5.3, V5.4, and V5.5. The results of several small performance studies to determine the cost of using a specific CICS functional area.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Nicholas Bingell,Gordon Keehn,Lisa Fellows,Tommy Joergensen,Erhard Woerner,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Jonathan Sayles,Chris Rayns,Vijay Sankar,John Milne,Deena Stein,Debasish Dash,Ofer Pharhi,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738435589

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z/OS Traditional Application Maintenance and Support by Jonathan Sayles,Chris Rayns,Vijay Sankar,John Milne,Deena Stein,Debasish Dash,Ofer Pharhi,IBM Redbooks Pdf

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we attempt to provide fresh insight into a problem domain that, in the authors' opinions, has been pushed to the back burner of technology writing for far too long—the domain of z/OS® (traditional) mainframe maintenance and production support. Since the mid-1980's, outside of a few websites and publications, this still-critical area of software has barely even received lip service by the world of mainstream technology media. In a small way, we are attempting address this situation. In this book, we provide information in "what and how to" sections on the value of z/OS maintenance and support—not the value of the software, which is hardly in question, but the value of the software developers, and how they collaborate, analyze, code, and test the applications, fixes, and enhancements under their responsibility. We present new 21st Century tools to help them achieve their goals more easily and effectively. These tools integrate and provide a 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 value-proposition, for companies that are still doing work the way they did when in the mid-1970's, when Gerald Ford was president of the United States. We are also describing, to a lesser extent, how you can effectively integrate the new tools with your existing development software stack, in order to find points of complimentary functionality. And we describe the new agile development and maintenance methodologies, and best practices for tools use and adoption. We hope that you find this work useful, and perhaps that it can fuel more discussion, future Redbooks publications, and other publications by IBM, or any vendor or group interested in this critical and vastly under-acknowledged technology domain.

Author : Frank Kyne,Andy Clifton,Justin Deane,Fernando Ferreira,Richard Gunjal,Chuck Laurent,John Papp,Judy Ruby-Brown,Maida Snapper,Michael Stephen,Dave Viguers,Marna Walle,Yvonne Zemotel,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440217

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Improving z/OS Application Availability by Managing Planned Outages by Frank Kyne,Andy Clifton,Justin Deane,Fernando Ferreira,Richard Gunjal,Chuck Laurent,John Papp,Judy Ruby-Brown,Maida Snapper,Michael Stephen,Dave Viguers,Marna Walle,Yvonne Zemotel,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is intended to make System Programmers, Operators, and Availability Managers aware of the enhancements to recent releases of IBM z/OS® and its major subsystems in the area of planned outage avoidance. It is a follow-on to, rather than a replacement for, z/OS Planned Outage Avoidance Checklist, SG24-7328. Its primary objective is to bring together in one place information that is already available, but widely dispersed. It also presents a different perspective on planned outage avoidance. Most businesses care about application availability rather than the availability of a specific system. Also, a planned outage is not necessarily a bad thing, if it does not affect application availability. In fact, running for too long without an IPL or subsystem restart might have a negative impact on application availability because it impacts your ability to apply preventive service. Therefore, this book places more focus on decoupling the ability to make changes and updates to your system from IPLing or restarting your systems.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Philip Hale,Em James,Peter Klein,John Tilling,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Rufus Credle,Isabel Arnold,Andrew Bates,Michael Baylis,Pradeep Gohil,Christopher Hodgins,Daniel Millwood,Ian J Mitchell,Catherine Moxey,Geoffrey Pirie,Inderpal Singh,Stewart Smith,Matthew Webster,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440248

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Cloud Enabling IBM CICS by Rufus Credle,Isabel Arnold,Andrew Bates,Michael Baylis,Pradeep Gohil,Christopher Hodgins,Daniel Millwood,Ian J Mitchell,Catherine Moxey,Geoffrey Pirie,Inderpal Singh,Stewart Smith,Matthew Webster,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication takes an existing IBM 3270-COBOL-VSAM application and describes how to use the features of IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Transaction Server (CICS TS) cloud enablement. Working with the General Insurance Application (GENAPP) as an example, this book describes the steps needed to monitor both platform and application health using the CICS Explorer CICS Cloud perspective. It also shows you how to apply threshold policy and measure resource usage, all without source code changes to the original application. In addition, this book describes how to use multi-versioning to safely and reliably apply and back out application changes. This Redbooks publication includes instructions about the following topics: How to create a CICS TS platform to manage and reflect the health of a set of CICS TS regions, and the services that they provide to applications How to quickly get value from CICS TS applications, by creating and deploying a CICS TS application for an existing user application How to protect your CICS TS platform from erroneous applications by using threshold policies How to deploy and run multiple versions of the same CICS TS application on the same CICS TS platform at the same time, enabling a safer migration from one application version to another, with no downtime How to measure application resource usage, enabling a comparison of the performance of different application versions, and chargeback based on application use This book describes how CICS TS cloud enablement uses existing operational facilities, including monitoring, events, transaction tracking, CICS TS bundles, and IBM CICSPlex® System Manager (CICSPlex SM), to integrate with existing deployment and management processes.

Author : Russell Bonner,Sophie Green,Ezriel Gross,Jim Harrison,Debra Scharfstein,Will Yates,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738459295

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Modernizing Applications with IBM CICS by Russell Bonner,Sophie Green,Ezriel Gross,Jim Harrison,Debra Scharfstein,Will Yates,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® CICS® is a mixed language application server that runs on IBM Z®. Over the 50 years since CICS was introduced in 1969, enterprises have used the qualities of service (QoSs) that CICS provides to allow them to create high throughput and secure transactional applications that have powered their business. As the IT landscape has evolved, so has CICS to allow these applications to integrate with new platforms and still provide value to the rest of the business. Because of this capability, many businesses still rely on CICS to power their core applications. This IBM Redpaper publication focuses on modernizing these CICS applications, allowing them to integrate with cloud-native applications. This modernization can be achieved either by constructing application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow new cloud-native applications to connect to your existing assets, rewriting parts of your application in newer languages and hosting them back on CICS, or by using CICS capabilities to extend your applications to provide new capabilities and functions. The paper takes a traditional example application and shows you how it works. Then, the paper extends the example, rewrites portions of its functions, and enables its APIs. It also explains how CICS applications can use continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to deliver, test, and deploy code into CICS easily and with quality.

Author : Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Tony Fitzgerald,Elisabetta Flamini,Jun Hua Gao,Ivan D Hargreaves,Phil Wakelin,Hongtao Wen,Bei Chun Zhou,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738438337

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IBM CICS and the JVM server: Developing and Deploying Java Applications by Chris Rayns,George Bogner,Tony Fitzgerald,Elisabetta Flamini,Jun Hua Gao,Ivan D Hargreaves,Phil Wakelin,Hongtao Wen,Bei Chun Zhou,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information about the new Java virtual machine (JVM) server technology in IBM CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V4.2. We begin by outlining the many advantages of its multi-threaded operation over the pooled JVM function of earlier releases. The Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) is described and we highlight the benefits OSGi brings to both development and deployment. Details are then provided about how to configure and use the new JVM server environment. Examples are included of the deployment process, which takes a Java application from the workstation Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) with the IBM CICS Explorer® software development kit (SDK) plug-in, through the various stages up to execution in a stand-alone CICS region and an IBM CICSPlex® environment. The book continues with a comparison between traditional CICS programming, and CICS programming from Java. As a result, the main functional areas of the Java class library for CICS (JCICS) application programming interface (API) are extensively reviewed. Further chapters are provided to demonstrate interaction with structured data such as copybooks, and how to access relational databases by using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Structured Query Language for Java (SQLJ). Finally, we devote a chapter to the migration of applications from the pooled JVM model to the new JVM server run time.

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 : 52,6 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 : Casey Young
Publisher : Maximum Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1931644004

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Exploring IBM E-business Software by Casey Young Pdf

This detailed look at IBM’s software products for e-business enables IBM users to gain a fundamental understanding of e-business architecture, where IBM software products fit into that architecture, and where to go to get more information. The main products and platforms for development tools and components, application server software, and secure network and management software are described. This book also distinguishes between two or more IBM software products that appear to serve the same purpose but really have different applications. Key products covered include DB2, Web Sphere, Lotus Domino, and Tivoli. This replaces 1885068581.

Author : Rufus Credle,Vikram Manchala,Dana Shelton,Kenichi Yoshimura,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.