CICS Advances on All Fronts

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2 also offers additional performance and availability features, including:

• The datasets from which program artifacts are loaded can now be dynamically defined, without restarting the CICS region.
• Java programs benefit from more consistent and predictable response times and improved robustness. Java application errors can be more easily diagnosed through an integrated JVM.
• Enhancements to the timing precision and data capacity of CICS monitoring and statistics data enable more accurate accounting of CPU time.
• As well as DB2* applications, all types of applications now benefit from open transaction environment, improving application thoughput. A complementary change makes file control APIs threadsafe for local and record-level sharing of VSAM files so customers with mixed VSAM and DB2 resources also benefit.
• A shared data table can now hold more than 2 GB of data, so large quantities of read-only application data can be cached for high performance access.
• CICS applications can now write larger quantities of data to an ESDS file through 64-bit addressing.

More information on CICS* is available online (www.ibm.com/software/htp/cics).