CICS Smart Seminar Wildfire Workshop – Coppell, TX – May 9, 2024

IBM will host an In-Person CICS Smart Seminar Wildfire Workshop May 9, 2024 in Coppell, TX
8:30AM – 3:30PM CT

There is no virtual offering for this event; Registration closes May 6

Objective:
Every application development team faces the same mandate: Do it faster, more efficiently and use fewer resources. But whether you master that challenge depends in large part on your in-house technology, how well you use it, and how prepared you are for the latest advancements in application development technology.

Join us in this complimentary technology seminar for in-depth discussions on how CICS solutions can help solve some of your biggest challenges. You’ll learn about the benefits of CICS Transaction Server V6, new programming interfaces, new language support and important high availability options.

You’ll also have the unique opportunity to interact with technical professionals who have extensive experience in application development tools and CICS infrastructure so that you can make better-informed decisions and gain control of critical processes.

Audience:

CICS application developers, CICS systems programmers, architects/leads, and managers

Agenda:

Session Abstracts

CICS TS V6 Technical Overview

CICS Transaction server for z/OS (CICS TS) is a world-class, secure, and scalable platform for hosting transactional enterprise applications in a hybrid architecture. CICS applications can efficiently update data and messages in IBM Db2, IBM IMS, IBM VSAM, and IBM MQ with transaction integrity, while meeting demanding service level agreements. CICS TS provides an excellent foundation for a stepwise, low-risk, high-return approach to application modernization.

This session will discuss enhancements that came with version 6.1 as well as some of the new features in the recently announced 6.2 release.

What does Zero Trust Strategy and Compliance mean for CICS TS?

Zero trust is a framework that assumes a complex network’s security is always at risk to external and internal threats. It helps organize and strategize a thorough approach to counter those threats.  This session will cover updates to CICS in support of Zero Trust Compliance.  The session will cover changes made to CICS TS 6.1 and CICS TS 6.2 to enhance the security capabilities in CICS.

Lunch Session – Introduction to IBM’s watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4z)

WCA4z provides an end-to-end application developer lifecycle that includes application discovery and analysis, automated code refactoring and COBOL to Java conversion.  Developers can automatically refactor selected elements of an application and continue modernizing in COBOL, or selectively transform code to Java leveraging generative AI using a highly tuned state-of-the-art large language model.  This lunch session will introduce the principles of WCA4z, and how several organizations are already using it to help modernize their z applications.

Asynchronous API

The CICS asynchronous application programming interface (API) provides a powerful means for IBM customers to optimize CICS applications for Web Services and APIs that are external to CICS. The asynchronous APIs allow for multiple requests to service providers to occur concurrently, rather than one after the other, all using a supported API in CICS.  This session will introduce the “AYSNC API” and show how to use it CICS applications.

CICS Explorer Updates

The CICS Explorer has become an essential component when working with CICS, either as an application developer or and a systems administrator.  This session will highlight some of the more recent enhancements to the CICS Explorer including multi-factor authentication (MFA), Aggregation of resource views,  and others.

For any questions or additional information, please contact Brian Birdsong at [email protected].
A continental breakfast and light lunch will be provided. Please ensure to include any dietary restrictions in your enrollment request.