What is CICS?

When you remember a big business, you think of Fortune 500. When you think about Big Business software, you think about companies like IBM and Oracle. In this case, IBM, which is the author of CICS, a system of controlling customer information, which also uses a wide range of financial institutions, universities and universities, airlines reservation systems, insurance companies, ATM and state and national and national governments.

CICS is a system of transaction processing that can handle both a small and large number of transactions, although it is designed mainly for huge quantities. The highest transaction number has been recorded in several thousands per second. Functionality ranges from traditional mainframes to online dose activity.

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CICS has been developed and runs primarily on 64 -bit Z/OS IBM, although it can run on other operating systems, including Z/VSE, i5 and OS/2. Related systems can also work on third -party OS, including AIX, Linux, Mac OS and Windows. However, the vast majority of CICS systems are powered by Big Blue. CICS originally developed in the US in 1969 for small and medium -mains systems, now owes its updates for corporate and other massive system protocols to programmers working in the UK. The latest version is the CICS Transaction Server Server version 3.1 Pro z/OS that was launched in 2005.

The abbreviation's pronunciation is inconsistent around the world. In English -speaking countries, it is pronounced by saying every letter or making the initial C more difficult, it sounds like "kicks". The Germans call "zicks" and the Italians call "chickens". In Spain it is "thick" and in Brazil and Mexico isThe "sick".