IBM CICS

What do you like best?

IBM CICS is basically a medium through which you can make use of data stored on Mainframes which usually is not accessible because you need COBOL language for that. IBM CICS helps you to connect to mainframes with a java or .net or any other language which the front end supports.

We have made use of this product extensively because some of our clients were adamant that they don't want to move the data from Mainframes. So we shifted towards CICS and we were pleasantly surprised by the speed of the transaction, the volume it can support and high availability and ofcourse no hacking is possible because its Mainframes after all, most secured systems.

What do you dislike?

Establishing the initial connection can be challenging task if you are doing it for the first time because there are a lot of things which you need to get absolutely right.

There arent a lot of experienced and knowledgeable resources available in market who are good in Mainframes and COBOL or assembly language.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If the project need is to interact with data stored on Mainframes then IBM CICS is the number one solution.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have used it to get more business and client satisfaction has also increased because they know the data is safe and secure on mainframes. Secondly we have that data accessible to us all the time through IBM CICS at wire speed, handling massive volume and reliability is top notch because mainframes doesn't go down just like that.