IBM CICS Transaction Server Reviews & Product Details

IBM CICS is middleware designed to support rapid, high-volume online transaction processing. It is essentially a collection of mixed language application servers that supports online transaction management and connectivity for applications on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS. It helps you to interact with Mainframes, even if your application is not written in Cobol. It has many connectors and can support almost any language which you are working on. You can make a call to IBM Mainframes through CICS and fetch the data as per the requirement of your applications through Java language or MQ or .Net or any other language which you are working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main thing which bothers me is that when we face an error and have to debug from the logs, that is a very cumbersome process. The cost associated with using IBM CICS and Mainframes is pretty substantial since these are legacy systems and their maintenance require a lot of resources. IBM is always there to help you out but again finding good resources to hire and train in your organization is going to be a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The people I worked with were the best around, I spent 20 years making the green screens web based, unfortunately assembler and COBOL programmers are hard to come by. Those that know what they are doing can do it really well, and facilitate Java guys like me to make the most of things. Very stable in a highly controlled environment (assuming you have an operations team on hand 24/7, most large companies do). In my 20 years depending on it, I don't recall it ever going down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of talented people, IBM support is great if you can narrow down the problem for them, they work 24/7 to help you in a crisis. Probably the cost would prohibit most companies from using it, as an employee, that's not my issue, it really is a workhorse that can handle anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM CICS(Customer Information Control System) is a great platform to connect to IBM Mainframes and leverage the data stored on the Mainframes. It supports many languages and connectors. In my project we used JAVA and MQ calls basically. We use to integrate our new JAVA-based tool with IBM CICS to get the required information from the backend servers which were IBM Mainframes in this case and then present it to the customer on a webpage. It never slows down and the ability to handle volume is unparallel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am not sure if I disliked anything about IBM CICS. Although it is a little complicated when you are making the connections for the first time since there isn't much documentation around this subject on the IBM website. Second is the lack of well-experienced resources who have worked on CICS and have a deep understanding of the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Best thing i liked about IBM CICS is the platform provided to integrating new Web applications while leveraging the Mainframe systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In a Multi web application using CICS as the middleware to queue transaction , there is a downside to performance during peak timings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.