Virtual CICS User Group Sponsors

Broadcom Mainframe Software

DataKinetics

Previous Virtual CICS Meetings

January 2025 – Ansible Automation Platform in Action

January 2025 – Ansible Automation Platform in Action

December 2024 – The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS Integrations

December 2024 – The 7 Deadly Sins of CICS Integrations

September 2024 – CICS Resource Definitions as Part of a DevOps Pipeline

September 2024 – CICS Resource Definitions as Part of a DevOps Pipeline

July 2024 – CICS Security in a RACF Environment

July 2024 – CICS Security in a RACF Environment

May 2024 – CICS Interdependency Analyzer in Devops

May 2024 – CICS Interdependency Analyzer in Devops

March 2024 – CICS Event Processing and CICS Policies

March 2024 – CICS Event Processing and CICS Policies

January 2024 – Enhanced Analysis Through Integrating CICS and Other Types of SMF Data

January 2024 – Enhanced Analysis Through Integrating CICS and Other Types of SMF Data

November 2023 | CICS and Recovery

November 2023 | CICS and Recovery

September 2023 | Using CICS Artifacts to Build Web Service APIs

September 2023 | Using CICS Artifacts to Build Web Service APIs

July 2023 | Problem Analysis and Performance Tuning for CICS

July 2023 | Problem Analysis and Performance Tuning for CICS

May 2023 | How to define CICS Maintained Data Tables to the Coupling Facility Resource Manager

May 2023 | How to define CICS Maintained Data Tables to the Coupling Facility Resource Manager

March 2023 | Making the case for developers to use In-Memory tables

March 2023 | Making the case for developers to use In-Memory tables

January 2023 | New Ways to Analyze CICS Transaction and Statistics Data

January 2023 | New Ways to Analyze CICS Transaction and Statistics Data

November 2022 | OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS 5.6 and CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS Next Release and Features

November 2022 | OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS 5.6 and CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS Next Release and Features

September 2022 | Using Analytics and AI to Find and Fix Inefficient Patterns in CICS Integration

September 2022 | Using Analytics and AI to Find and Fix Inefficient Patterns in CICS Integration

July 2022 | Developing and modernizing CICS applications with Ansible

July 2022 | Developing and modernizing CICS applications with Ansible

May 2022 | CICS Web services – Bridging Two Worlds

May 2022 | CICS Web services – Bridging Two Worlds

March 2022 | How Zowe makes the mainframe open, simple, and familiar

March 2022 | How Zowe makes the mainframe open, simple, and familiar

January 2022 | Taking the pain out of CICS application debugging

January 2022 | Taking the pain out of CICS application debugging

November 2021 | Debugging CICS Storage Violations using IPCS

November 2021 | Debugging CICS Storage Violations using IPCS

September 2021 | Collecting and Analysing CICS Statistics

September 2021 | Collecting and Analysing CICS Statistics

July 2021 | What’s New in CICS Security

July 2021 | What’s New in CICS Security

May 2021 | How to build a CICS API

May 2021 | How to build a CICS API

March 2021 | CICS Health Check – What Does it Entail?

March 2021 | CICS Health Check – What Does it Entail?

January 2021 | Driving CICS Development, Operations and Management Success with CICS Tools

January 2021 | Driving CICS Development, Operations and Management Success with CICS Tools

November 2020 | Visualizing CICS performance data in Splunk using CICS Performance Analyzer

November 2020 | Visualizing CICS performance data in Splunk using CICS Performance Analyzer

September 2020 | Installing and Connecting to CICS EXPLORER for a single CICS region

July 2020 | Getting and Using CICS Integration Analytics

July 2020 | Getting and Using CICS Integration Analytics

Mat 2020 | Extending CICS applications with Java using Maven and Gradle

Mat 2020 | Extending CICS applications with Java using Maven and Gradle

March 2020 | Providing system integrity for multiple LPARs with improved GDPR and PCI/DSS compliance

March 2020 | Providing system integrity for multiple LPARs with improved GDPR and PCI/DSS compliance

November 2019 | LSR Tuning Today

November 2019 | LSR Tuning Today

September 2019 | Mainframe Integration – Handling Legacy Application Challenges

September 2019 | Mainframe Integration – Handling Legacy Application Challenges

July 2019 | How to solve CICS Enqueue problems

May 2019 | The CICS/MQ Interface

May 2019 | The CICS/MQ Interface

March 2019 | Efficient management of online resources using CICS Configuration

March 2019 | Efficient management of online resources using CICS Configuration

January 2019 | The CICS/Db2 interface

January 2019 | The CICS/Db2 interface

September 2018 | Multi-factor authentication for z/OS and CICS: what, why and how – part of your GDPR compliance strategy

September 2018 | Multi-factor authentication for z/OS and CICS: what, why and how – part of your GDPR compliance strategy

July 2018 | From Legacy to Leading Edge – Creating CICS APIs Without Coding

July 2018 | From Legacy to Leading Edge – Creating CICS APIs Without Coding

May 2018 | The Need for HTAC

May 2018 | The Need for HTAC

March 2018 | Managing CICS Performance and Configuration using CICS PA and CM

March 2018 | Managing CICS Performance and Configuration using CICS PA and CM

January 2018 | Using IPCS to solve CICS Storage Violations

January 2018 | Using IPCS to solve CICS Storage Violations

November 2017 | Finding Your Way with A CICS MAP – Back To Basics

November 2017 | Finding Your Way with A CICS MAP – Back To Basics

September 2017 | CICS Storage Violations

September 2017 | CICS Storage Violations

July 2017 | CICS in an API World

July 2017 | CICS in an API World

May 2017 | Recording CICS tasks

May 2017 | Recording CICS tasks

$March 2017 | Introducing C\Prof – visualizing CICS applications using only the CICS internal trace$

March 2017 | Introducing C\Prof – visualizing CICS applications using only the CICS internal trace

January 2017 | UrbanCode – Helping CICS Developers Everywhere Tackle their New Year’s Resolutions!

January 2017 | UrbanCode – Helping CICS Developers Everywhere Tackle their New Year’s Resolutions!

November 2016 | CICS Tools: Tuning CICS with CICS Performance Analyzer

November 2016 | CICS Tools: Tuning CICS with CICS Performance Analyzer

September 2016 | Application Modernization with LWW framework for CICS

September 2016 | Application Modernization with LWW framework for CICS

July 2016 | Meeting the challenges of agile development with DevOps, CICS, and UrbanCode Deploy

July 2016 | Meeting the challenges of agile development with DevOps, CICS, and UrbanCode Deploy

May 2016 | Sampling Products for CICS

May 2016 | Sampling Products for CICS

March 2016 | CICS Performance and Tuning 101

March 2016 | CICS Performance and Tuning 101

January 2016 | Continuous Testing: DevOps for the Enterprise

January 2016 | Continuous Testing: DevOps for the Enterprise

November 2015 | Using Threadsafe in CICS

November 2015 | Using Threadsafe in CICS

July 2015 | Getting back to basics

July 2015 | Getting back to basics

May 2015 | CICS Tuning 101

May 2015 | CICS Tuning 101

March 2015 | When Bad Things Happen to Good Transactions: Analyzing Transaction Problems on System z

March 2015 | When Bad Things Happen to Good Transactions: Analyzing Transaction Problems on System z

January 2015 | Five Compelling Reasons for Creating a CICS Cloud

January 2015 | Five Compelling Reasons for Creating a CICS Cloud

November 2014 | CICS Goes Mobile: Mobile Connectivity Architectures and Design Alternatives for System z

November 2014 | CICS Goes Mobile: Mobile Connectivity Architectures and Design Alternatives for System z

September 2014 | Transaction Analysis Workbench for System z Version 1.2: See the big picture from end-to-end

September 2014 | Transaction Analysis Workbench for System z Version 1.2: See the big picture from end-to-end

July 2014 | CICS Web Services as a Provider and Requestor

July 2014 | CICS Web Services as a Provider and Requestor

May 2014 | CICS Transaction Debugging

May 2014 | CICS Transaction Debugging

March 2014 | CICS is ready for mobile, are you ready?

March 2014 | CICS is ready for mobile, are you ready?

January 2014 | Kick your Mainframe into High Gear: Access and Use Mainframe Data with Mobile, Web, and Business Intelligence Applications

January 2014 | Kick your Mainframe into High Gear: Access and Use Mainframe Data with Mobile, Web, and Business Intelligence Applications

November 2013 | Programming with CICS TS Channels and Containers

November 2013 | Programming with CICS TS Channels and Containers

September 2013 | Creating Modern CICS Web Applications by Exploiting Open Source Javascript

September 2013 | Creating Modern CICS Web Applications by Exploiting Open Source Javascript

July 2013 | Extracting optimum performance out of CICS

May 2013 | Integrating Life-Comm, Life/70, or other CICS resident insurance and annuity applications with distributed applications utilizing the ACORD standard

May 2013 | Integrating Life-Comm, Life/70, or other CICS resident insurance and annuity applications with distributed applications utilizing the ACORD standard

March 2013 | No More Cold Start Surprises

March 2013 | No More Cold Start Surprises

January 2013 | CICS V5.1 – Portfolio Update

January 2013 | CICS V5.1 – Portfolio Update

November 2012 | CICS Security

November 2012 | CICS Security

September 2012 | Success paths for integrating CICS with new technologies

September 2012 | Success paths for integrating CICS with new technologies

July 2012 | CICS introduction to Web services for the system programmer

July 2012 | CICS introduction to Web services for the system programmer

May 2012 | Utilizing the Dojo Toolkit for Web browser-driven applications from CICS

May 2012 | Utilizing the Dojo Toolkit for Web browser-driven applications from CICS

March 2012 | Analyzing CICS function shipping applications using Transaction Analysis Workbench

March 2012 | Analyzing CICS function shipping applications using Transaction Analysis Workbench

January 2012 | CICS Transaction Gateway V8.1

January 2012 | CICS Transaction Gateway V8.1

November 2011 | CICS TS Performance ― Tuning LSR Pools

November 2011 | CICS TS Performance ― Tuning LSR Pools

September 20112 | CICS TS 4.2: Leveraging event processing and high-performance Java

September 20112 | CICS TS 4.2: Leveraging event processing and high-performance Java

July 2011 | Cross-enterprise application performance monitoring and CICS-specific drill-down

July 2011 | Cross-enterprise application performance monitoring and CICS-specific drill-down

May 2011 | Solving the problem when CICS isn’t the cause

May 2011 | Solving the problem when CICS isn’t the cause

Upcoming Virtual Meetings

March 11, 2025

Virtual CICS User Group Meeting

May 13, 2025

Virtual CICS User Group Meeting