CICS World class transaction server
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We still have many of our old code written using COBOL CICS that takes the data from the OnPremise system location that get sent to IBM Mainframe and need to get updated. IBM CICS Transaction Server help us update that data on the IBM Mainframe. We don't have to rewrite any of our previous logic to do these updates and we can do code reuse.
Pros
- It helps us modernize our legacy mainframe based applications by moving the newer logic to modern platform while keeping enterprise corporate systems running
- It works well and is stable without any issues
- It is very secured and you rarely hear of any data breaches due to this
Cons
- Would like to see the transaction response matrix on the average transaction response among all requests.
- Would like to see GUI tool to be able to see currently running transactions
- Would like to be able to get the details of where the cics transaction was triggered from
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM CICS Transaction Server is multi-decades proven transaction server which is very scalable, very secured, easy to use, has good transactional capabilities, works well all other mainframe resources such as DB2, languages on IBM mainframe, has access control capabilities in terms of who can access the transaction for read mode vs update mode, etc.
Vetted Review
25 years of experience