IBM is expanding its mainframe offerings with the latest version of its CICS Transaction Server application, which looks to offer additional Web services and manageability features for service ...

IBM currently dominates the mainframe market. It not only sells the machines but also owns major software platforms. The main ones include the IMS and Db2 databases as well as CICS (Customer ...

It’s a challenge to bring the mainframe into the modern age of service-oriented architecture but there’s a huge payoff once the job is done.

SOA Software has begun shipping its Service-Oriented Legacy Architecture or SOLA, a platform that exposes CICS mainframe apps as Web services. The company claims it’s the first to bridge the gap ...

Microsoft and Micro Focus will offer products and services for moving mainframe applications to Windows. Micro Focus server software allows a CICS application to run unchanged on an Intel server ...

Merrill Lynch & Co. has sold a mainframe Web services tool set that processes 1.5 million transactions per day to SOA Software Inc., a service-oriented architecture management and governance vendor.

Merrill Lynch sold a mainframe Web services tool set that processes 1.5 million transactions a day to SOA Software Inc., a service-oriented architecture management and governance vendor.

Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for CICS and Batch11G provides a CICS API emulation batch environment that allows mainframe applications to run unchanged on Tuxedo 11G in a multinode grid ...

In particular, the partnership is designed to provide an alternative to customers who run Customer Information Control System (CICS), a widely used mainframe transaction system.