2026 - CICS/Security
2026 CICS/Security Track
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Discover the latest open beta features in CICS Transaction Server. See what’s coming next and share your feedback to help shape the future of CICS.
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Ever wondered how banks process thousands of transactions every second or how large companies manage massive amounts of data? It is all thanks to powerful systems like CICS (Customer Information Control System)! In this session we'll introduce you to the world of CICS and show you how CICS, key part of the mainframe, helps run some of the biggest businesses in the world. Attendees will gain insights through real-world examples into why CICS remains the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of modern IT infrastructure, handling millions of transactions per second with unmatched reliability, speed, and security. By the end of the session, you'll know what CICS is and its role in the mainframe world.
Whether you're completely new to the mainframe and CICS or looking to deepen your understanding, this session will show you why CICS is the true MVP. Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of high-speed transactions and secure systems that keep our modern world running!
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Experienced CICS system programmers are often the single best knowledge base their organisation has — but much of that value is scattered across inboxes, chat threads, ticket histories, and, most critically, “tribal knowledge” that never makes it into formal documentation. In this session, “Turbo‑charge CICS knowledge for AI use,” we’ll show how to turn that fragmented expertise into an AI‑ready knowledge layer that can reliably support modern AI assistants and specialised CICS agents. We’ll focus on pragmatic, low-friction techniques for extracting high-signal operational know‑how: structured SME conversations (remote-friendly), capturing real troubleshooting narratives, and using transcripts as raw material to produce curated, reviewable knowledge documents — so your best practices and hard-won lessons become reusable, searchable, and consistently available. You’ll learn how to prioritise what to capture (runbooks, “why we do it this way,” failure modes, and decision heuristics), how to reduce ambiguity and “it depends” answers into context-rich knowledge, and how to establish lightweight validation so the content stays trusted as CICS evolves. The goal: move from ad hoc expert interruption to scalable expertise-on-demand, enabling AI systems to go deep on CICS-specific questions rather than staying generic.
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Effective testing is essential for building robust systems. Dive deep into a structured approach to the testing pyramid for CICS applications. Using Test4z, we will demonstrate how unit tests form the foundation of the pyramid, enabling rapid validation of individual components. We'll then explore how integration tests and, finally, end-to-end tests in production-like environments build upon this foundation as you move up the testing pyramid.
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z/OS middleware configuration is often manual, time‑consuming, and difficult to audit consistently. This session introduces a configuration‑as‑code approach using the z/OS Middleware Configuration Tool (zconfig). |
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One of the highlights from CICS TS 6.3 is the support of OpenTelemetry tracing. This session will introduce you OpenTelemetry tracing that is widely used in cloud and off-platforms, how CICS supports it, and how it may help you uncover the myth of the parts of your business on the z platform.
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Take a guided walkthrough of the newest CICS Transaction Server 6.3 performance report. We’ll highlight key insights to help you understand what these results mean for your workloads and how to optimize for peak performance. |
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AI coding agents are dramatically increasing development velocity — but they are also amplifying a long‑standing problem: testing does not scale at the same rate as code generation. As agents produce more code, faster, and across broader surfaces, manual and semi‑automated testing quickly becomes the bottleneck, re‑introducing risk at precisely the point teams believe they’re moving faster.This session explores a central paradox of AI‑assisted development: the same agents that exacerbate the automated testing problem are also the most viable solution to it. We’ll examine why traditional test approaches struggle in an agent‑driven world, particularly for complex systems like CICS and z/OS where meaningful validation requires end‑to‑end integration testing, not just unit tests. We’ll discuss how AI‑generated code frequently lacks corresponding tests, why hand‑crafting integration tests does not keep pace, and how this discrepancy can undermine confidence in AI‑accelerated delivery.The second half of the session focuses on the opportunity: using AI coding agents to generate new Galasa integration tests alongside — or even ahead of — the code they produce.
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Come to this session to find out how to integrate CICS with AI in the latest CICS TS version 6.3
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This session will introduce you the latest features in CICS TS 6.3 for securing your business.