Session Evaluation

This session highlights all the new features in CICS TS 6.2 directly from the CICS team. Developers will be able to use new versions of Java, Jakarta, Spring Boot, and Node.js to modernize and extend applications. CICS administrators will be able to further optimise applications with threadsafe access to shared data tables, reduced volumes of data written to SMF, automate more with CICS policies and Ansible, and use the power of the IBM Z platform to further improve the systems’ resilience and scalability. CICS and security administrators have new features, tools and workflows to tighten security for valuable transactions and data that is best practice and a requirement when adopting a Zero Trust strategy.

Session Evaluation

For many years transaction security has been the main way of securing applications. In many cases users have been granted individual access to transactions, or are members of groups that are no longer required for their role. This session will present an end to end description of the workflow of CICS Security Discovery which is designed to solve that problem and help you identify the roles, command and resource definitions in your production regions. There will be a demo of the Security Discovery Explorer Editor which analyses your existing security definitions, and production usage to identify roles, the users in these roles and their access to applications and resources.

Session Evaluation

An introduction to Observability in CICS using Open Telemetry, a detailed look into the new functionality delivered as part of the CICS open beta.