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Welcome to the CICS home page at the Computing and Networking Services Data Center
located at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
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located at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
What's new?
CNS CICS systems staff.
Accessing CNS CICS Regions.
Display the CNS CICS region information.
Display the currently executing CICS jobs.
Check the CNS CICS Socket Interface status.
Local documentation for
users of CICS at CNS
Local documentation for
CICS application developers
Miscellaneous CICS-related Links
CNS Problem Reporting/Tracking System.
Future enhancements planned for this site.
The Customer Information Control System (CICS) is an interactive transaction processing system from IBM, which has been used at CNS (formerly NERDC) since the early 1970's. The CICSplex at CNS provides critical transaction processing services to certain universities and state agencies in Florida, including the University of North Florida, the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA), and many departments at the University of Florida (e.g. Registrar, Student Financial Affairs, Administrative Affairs, Academic Affairs, UF Foundation, Sponsored Research and Graduate Education, College of Medicine, and others). These services provide online access to the critical data infrastructure required to keep these universities and agencies running.
Do you ever pick "ADMIN" from the CNS Interactive Services Menu? Use the UF Menu System? ISIS? Telegator? GATA? LUIS? FACTS? Do you register for classes at UF using a telephone, a terminal, or a personal computer?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you are a CICS user at CNS.
The information contained here in CNS's CICS web site is intended to aid both the users of our CICS systems and the programming staffs who develop the applications that run in the CICSplex.
The following is a quote from an article which appears in the September 30, 2002, issue of Computerworld, titled "35 Technologies that shaped the industry":
"IBM's Customer Information Control System was developed in 1968 and is still the most important mainframe transaction processing software in the world."
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