Introduction To Cics Dynamic Scripting

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 : 42,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Application software
ISBN : OCLC:745061748

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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 : 53,5 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 : Chris Rayns,Mark Cocker,Regis David,Subhajit Maitra,Dan Millwood,Ian Mitchell,Phil Wakelin,Nigel Williams,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738436739

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CICS and SOA: Architecture and Integration Choices by Chris Rayns,Mark Cocker,Regis David,Subhajit Maitra,Dan Millwood,Ian Mitchell,Phil Wakelin,Nigel Williams,IBM Redbooks Pdf

The service-oriented architecture (SOA) style of integration involves breaking an application down into common, repeatable services that can be used by other applications (both internal and external) in an organization, independent of the computing platforms on which the business and its partners rely. In recent years CICS® has added a variety of support for SOA and now provides near seamless connectivity with other IT environments. This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps IT architects to select, plan, and design solutions that integrate CICS applications as service providers and requesters. First, we provide an introduction to CICS service enablement and introduce the architectural choices and technologies on which a CICS SOA solution can be based. We continue with an in-depth analysis of how to meet functional and non-functional requirements in the areas of application interface, security, transactional scope, high availability, and scalability. Finally, we document three integration scenarios to illustrate how these technologies have been used by customers to build robust CICS integration solutions.

Author : O'Grady James,Ian Burnett,Jim Harrison,San Yong Liu,Xue Yong Zhang,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440316

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Application Development for IBM CICS Web Services by O'Grady James,Ian Burnett,Jim Harrison,San Yong Liu,Xue Yong Zhang,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on developing Web service applications in IBM CICS®. It takes the broad view of developing and modernizing CICS applications for XML, Web services, SOAP, and SOA support, and lays out a reference architecture for developing these kinds of applications. We start by discussing Web services in general, then review how CICS implements Web services. We offer an overview of different development approaches: bottom-up, top-down, and meet-in-the-middle. We then look at how you would go about exposing a CICS application as a Web service provider, again looking at the different approaches. The book then steps through the process of creating a CICS Web service requester. We follow this by looking at CICS application aggregation (including 3270 applications) with IBM Rational® Application Developer for IBM System z® and how to implement CICS Web Services using CICS Cloud technology. The first part is concluded with hints and tips to help you when implementing this technology. Part two of this publication provides performance figures for a basic Web service. We investigate some common variables and examine their effects on the performance of CICS as both a requester and provider of Web services.

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 : 50,9 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 : Rufus Credle,George Burgess,Paul Cooper,Mark Hiscock,Mark Hollands,Mitch Johnson,Subhajit Maitra,Geoffrey Pirie,Bei Chun Zhou,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440255

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A Software Architect's Guide to New Java Workloads in IBM CICS Transaction Server by Rufus Credle,George Burgess,Paul Cooper,Mark Hiscock,Mark Hollands,Mitch Johnson,Subhajit Maitra,Geoffrey Pirie,Bei Chun Zhou,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System z® New Application License Charges (zNALC) pricing structure and provides examples of zNALC workload scenarios. It describes the products that can be run on a zNALC logical partition (LPAR), reasons to consider such an implementation, and covers the following topics: Using the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile to host applications within an IBM CICS® environment and how it interacts with CICS applications and resources Security technologies available to applications that are hosted within a WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile in CICS How to implement modern presentation in CICS with a CICS Liberty Java virtual machine (JVM) server How to share scenarios to develop Liberty JVM applications to gain benefits from IBM CICS Transaction Server for IBM z/OS® Value Unit Edition Considerations when using mobile devices to interact with CICS applications and explains specific CICS technologies for connecting mobile devices by using the z/OS Value Unit Edition How IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS runs in the transaction server to provide decision management services for CICS COBOL and PL/I applications Installing the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) Feature Pack for Modern Batch to enable the IBM WebSphere® batch environment to schedule and manage batch applications in CICS This book also covers what is commonly referred to as plain old Java objects (POJOs). The Java virtual machine (JVM) server is a full-fledged JVM that includes support for Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) bundles. It can be used to host open source Java frameworks and does just about anything you want to do with Java on the mainframe. POJO applications can also qualify for deployment using the Value Unit Edition. Read about how to configure and deploy them in this companion Redbooks publication: IBM CICS and the JVM server: Developing and Deploying Java Applications, SG24-8038 Examples of POJOs are terminal-initiated transactions, CICS web support, web services, requests received via IP CICS sockets, and messages coming in via IBM WebSphere MQ messaging software.

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 : 44,6 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 : 49,9 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 : 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 : 49,8 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 : 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 : 43,6 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 : Rufus Credle,Sue Bayliss,Leigh Compton,Robert Jones,Manuela Mandelli,Richard Mercadante,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738439730

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The Complete Guide to CICS Transaction Gateway Volume 1 Configuration and Administration by Rufus Credle,Sue Bayliss,Leigh Compton,Robert Jones,Manuela Mandelli,Richard Mercadante,IBM Redbooks Pdf

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, you will gain an appreciation of the IBM CICS® Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) product suite, based on key criteria, such as capabilities, scalability, platform, CICS server support, application language support, and licensing model. Matching the requirements to available infrastructure and hardware choices requires an appreciation of the choices available. In this book, you will gain an understanding of those choices, and will be capable of choosing the appropriate CICS connection protocol, APIs for the applications, and security options. You will understand the services available to the application developer when using a chosen protocol. You will then learn about how to implement CICS TG solutions, taking advantage of the latest capabilities, such as IPIC connectivity, high availability, and Dynamic Server Selection. Specific scenarios illustrate the usage of CICS TG for IBM z/OS®, and CICS TG for Multiplatforms, with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS and IBM WebSphere® Application Server, including connections in CICS, configuring simple end-to-end connectivity (all platforms) with verification for remote and local mode applications, and adding security, XA support, and high availability.

Author : Hernan Cunico,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738455112

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Removing Barriers Between Devs and Ops teams with IBM CICS Transaction Server by Hernan Cunico,IBM Redbooks Pdf

To speed the release of new applications and updates, the IT industry is seeking to apply agile and lean principles to development and deployment. At the core of these principles is eliminating wasted work, breaking down artificial barriers between related functional teams, and adopting continuous release cycles that push improvements out to users faster than ever. In response to this effort, a new, more aggressive, and business-driven approach called DevOps has emerged. DevOps combines many traditional development and operations activities such that applications can be built, deployed, rebuilt, and redeployed in rapid cycles (Figure 1). The result is continuous, incremental improvements that drive new features into the marketplace with minimal impact on users and more efficient use of IT staff. IBM® CICS® Transaction Server has long been the workhorse of the global financial community. Now, with the latest release, CICS Transaction Server V5.3 supports DevOps-based organizations, too. Two capabilities in particular, the CICS build toolkit and a CICS plug-in for IBM UrbanCodeTM Deploy, can help teams break down the long-standing walls between development and operations teams. This IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide provides an overview of the features and capabilities of CICS Transaction Server V5.3 and shows how you can use this solution to help your DevOps team build and deploy solutions more quickly and efficiently.

Author : Rufus Credle,Andy Armstrong,Chris Atkinson,Russell Bonner,Geoff Pirie,Inderpal Singh,Nigel Williams,Matthew Wilson,Mark Woolley,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738438900

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Implementing IBM CICS JSON Web Services for Mobile Applications by Rufus Credle,Andy Armstrong,Chris Atkinson,Russell Bonner,Geoff Pirie,Inderpal Singh,Nigel Williams,Matthew Wilson,Mark Woolley,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information about how you can connect mobile devices to IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Transaction Server (CICS TS), using existing enterprise services already hosted on CICS, or to develop new services supporting new lines of business. This book describes the steps to develop, configure, and deploy a mobile application that connects either directly to CICS TS, or to CICS via IBM Worklight® Server. It also describes the advantages that your organization can realize by using Worklight Server with CICS. In addition, this Redbooks publication provides a broad understanding of the new CICS architecture that enables you to make new and existing mainframe applications available as web services using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and provides support for the transformation between JSON and application data. While doing so, we provide information about each resource definition, and its role when CICS handles or makes a request. We also describe how to move your CICS applications, and business, into the mobile space, and how to prepare your CICS environment for the following scenarios: Taking an existing CICS application and exposing it as a JSON web service Creating a new CICS application, based on a JSON schema Using CICS as a JSON client This Redbooks publication provides information about the installation and configuration steps for both Worklight Studio and Worklight Server. Worklight Studio is the Eclipse interface that a developer uses to implement a Worklight native or hybrid mobile application, and can be installed into an Eclipse instance. Worklight Server is where components developed for the server side (written in Worklight Studio), such as adapters and custom server-side authentication logic, run. CICS applications and their associated data constitute some of the most valuable assets owned by an enterprise. Therefore, the protection of these assets is an essential part of any CICS mobile project. This Redbooks publication, after a review of the main mobile security challenges, outlines the options for securing CICS JSON web services, and reviews how products, such as Worklight and IBM DataPower®, can help. It then shows examples of security configurations in CICS and Worklight.

Author : Steve Burghard,Peter Klein,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440507

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Using IBM CICS Transaction Server Channels and Containers by Steve Burghard,Peter Klein,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the new channels and containers support in IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Transaction Server V5.2. The book begins with an overview of the techniques used to pass data between applications running in CICS. This book describes the constraints that these data techniques might be subject to, and how a channels and containers solution can provide solid advantages alongside these techniques. These capabilities enable CICS to fully comply with emerging technology requirements in terms of sizing and flexibility. The book then goes on to describe application design, and looks at implementing channels and containers from an application programmer point of view. It provides examples to show how to evolve channels and containers from communication areas (COMMAREAs). Next, the book explains the channels and containers application programming interface (API). It also describes how this API can be used in both traditional CICS applications and a Java CICS (JCICS) applications. The business transaction services (BTS) API is considered as a similar yet recoverable alternative to channels and containers. Some authorized program analysis reports (APARs) are introduced, which enable more flexible web services features by using channels and containers. The book also presents information from a systems management point of view, describing the systems management and configuration tasks and techniques that you must consider when implementing a channels and containers solution. The book chooses a sample application in the CICS catalog manager example, and describes how you can port an existing CICS application to use channels and containers rather than using COMMAREAs.