At this week's SHARE conference, much of the buzz has centered on re-engineering CICS for loosely coupled architectures and making it into a kind of service-oriented iron. Customer Information Control System (CICS) traditionally reside on mainframes. While Web services have promised to unlock mainframe applications, break them into reusable components and combine them with Web applications in a service-oriented architecture, the hype has run ahead of the delivery in many cases.
Yet at the SHARE event, put on by an all-volunteer board of IBM customers, word has been put out that it can be done, it has been done and that it's high time to start thinking about CICS as a service as opposed to a system.
