The Virtual CICS user group is an independently-operated vendor-neutral site run by and for the CICS user community.
The Virtual CICS user group was established as a way for individuals using IBM's CICS TS systems to exchange information, learn new techniques, and advance their skills with the product.
This Web site provides a central point for coordinating periodic meetings (which contain technically-oriented topics presented in a webinar format), and provides articles, discussions, links, and other resources of interest to IBM CICS practitioners. Anyone with an interest in CICS is welcome to join the Virtual CICS user group and share in the knowledge exchange.
The Virtual CICS user group is free to its members.
We are pleased that Fundi Software is able to help us maintain the independence and existence of this user group.
The most recent virtual meeting of the user group included a presentation by Stephen Mitchell, Managing Director of Matter of Fact Software Limited, entitled, "Utilizing the Dojo Toolkit for Web browser-driven applications from CICS".
Copies of this presentation in PDF format are available for download here.
You can listen again to the whole of the last meeting here.
The next meeting will be on 10 July 2012.
The meetings take place at 10:30am CST (which 16:30 GMT) and 10:30am CDT (which is 15:30 GMT) during Daylight Saving Time. Because Summer Time and Daylight Saving Time start and end dates differ in different countries, take care to get online for the meeting at the correct local time!
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The new User Group newsletter is available for download. The contents include information about future meetings and dates, a round-up of the latest CICS-related news, and recent CICS articles.
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The newsletter is also available in flipbook format here.
Earlier issues are available here.
You can now find out what's going on in the CICS world and with this user group by following us on Twitter here or you can become a fan on Facebook here or Join the group on LinkedIn here.
If you're a CICS user then the Tools page on this Web site contains a list of all the software that runs alongside CICS.
If you're a vendor, then please make sure that the information about your software is complete and up-to-date.
A complete list of Tools available to CICS professionals can be found here.
Matter of Fact Software has announced Version 1 Release 0 of CICS JS/Server, which allows the Dojo Javascript toolkit to be installed and controlled on mainframe PDS datasets.
IBM has announced CICS TS Developer Trial V4.2, which is free of charge and for evaluation (non-production) use only.
CICS 101: Multi-Region Operation by Phyllis Donofrio in z/Journal (May 2012).
The 2012 edition of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook was published in January. Click here to visit the download page. The Yearbook is available in PDF format and is completely FREE.
Do you have a hot topic in mind that you think other CICS users would like to hear about? Know of a dynamic speaker who can educate and entertain? Send us a note!
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Click HERE to join the Virtual CICS User Group and to receive announcements of upcoming meetings.
