CICS Transaction Server


Other Names:

CICS/DOS/VS
CICS/VS
CICS
CICS/VSE
CICS/MVS
CICS/ESA
CICS TS

Categories:

Transactions

Status:

 Active

Vendor:

IBM

Platforms:

z/OS  z/VSE  

Short Description:

IBMs flagship transaction manager
 

Detail:

Customer Information Control System (CICS). Transaction management and processing system for z/OS and z/VSE. Also runs on other platforms including System i, AIX, Microsoft Windows and HP-UX as TXSeries.

Originally released by IBM as Public Utility Customer Infomation Control System, or CICS/OS in 1968 - a program offering. CICS/VS for VSE (later z/VSE), OS/VS1 and OS/VS2 (later z/OS) released in 1974. Applications originally used macros to call CICS services. CICS/VS 1.3 and CICS/DOS/VS 1.7 introduced Command Level Programming: applications used a command style to call CICS services, and passed through a pre-processor to convert these to macros. CICS/MVS 2.1.2 and CICS/VSE 2.3 were the last CICS releases to support macro level programming.

IBM Product IDs:

z/VSE

  • CICS Transaction Server for VSE/ESA Product ID: 5648-054
  • CICS/VSE 2.x Product ID: 5686-026
  • CICS/DOS/VS Product ID: 5746-XX3

z/OS

  • CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 5.x Product ID: 5655-Y04
  • CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 4.x Product ID: 5655-S97
  • CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3.x Product ID: 5655-M15
  • CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 2.x Product ID: 5697-E93
  • CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 1.x Product ID: 5655-147
  • CICS/ESA 4.x Product ID: 5655-018
  • CICS/ESA 3.x Product ID: 5685-083
  • CICS/MVS 2.x Product ID: 5665-403
  • CICS/OS/VS, CICS/VS 1.x Product ID: 5740-XX1

Entry last updated: 30-Aug-2017

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