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Tuning to Improve CICS Performance With Real or Virtual Storage

While CPU cycle and I/O constraints create many performance issues and technology has provided large increases in virtual and real storage, these resources still cause performance problems. This article will explain steps to improve performance when real or virtual storage constraints exist. » FULL STORY

September 2007 | by Jim Schesvold

CICS Web Support: Moving Transactions to the Web

e-Newsletter Exclusive | CICS Web Support provides Web-enablement facilities for existing applications with minimal effort and modification

November 2008

Data Protection Versus Risk

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August 2008

RACF and SSL Security With Digital Certificates

Tips & Techniques | You can use RACF as your intra-company certificate authority, avoid costs and possibly extend it beyond your company perimeter to save even more money.

July 2008

Boost Your Bottom Line

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Boosting your bottom line doesn’t have to be like pulling teeth. Here are five simple methods project managers can use to make both themselves and their companies valuable players.

May 2008

CICS Security With RACF

Tips & Techniques | There’s much flexibility, and hence potential complexity, in the security definitions available to control CICS multiregion security.

March 2008

Going Commando in CICS

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Among all the IBM products available for z/OS, CICS implements one of the most comprehensive and detailed security exploitations of RACF.

December 2007

Securing the CICS Environment With RACF

Tips & Techniques | In my career I worked in RACF administration for a few years without ever encountering the complexities of RACF grouping classes that CICS uses. When I finally did, I found it difficult to understand at first.

November 2007

Customizing Your ISPF Environment

Tips & Techniques | This article will show you how to customize your ISPF environment. To start, let’s dive in to some commands we’re going to need, specifically the ALTLIB and the LIBDEF commands.

September 2007

Exploring TSO and ISPF

Tips & Techniques | A better understanding of the logon process is helpful when diagnosing problems in TSO/ISPF

July 2007

CICS Performance Tuning

Technical Corner | Depending on I/O intensity, file tuning can improve CICS transaction response time and throughput more than any other aspect of tuning.

July 2007