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What an exciting time for CICS® users! We've got a whole host of announcements toshare with you: the incredibly powerful IBM z14™ - designed for trusted digitalexperiences; a new release of IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition giving you theability to call APIs from your mainframe assets; and that's just to start! Read on to discoverthe exciting new offerings from IBM Z®.

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Introducing the z14A recent survey found IBM Z to be 'best in class for reliability, accessibility, performance,and security among all server platforms'. Now meet the industry's first platform to deliverPervasive Encryption: all of your application and database data protected - without youneeding to change anything! Highlights for CICS users also include optimisations for Java,allowing the z14 to run these workloads 1.5x faster than alternative x86 platforms. Coupledwith advantages of co-location, there's truly never been a better time to take advantage ofJava in CICS. Read the announce for more information on the z14.

Call APIs from z/OS applicationsCheck out the newly updated Developer Center to discover the latest updates to z/OSConnect EE! This includes the ability to use z/OS Connect EE as an API requestor -allowing you to enhance your z/OS applications with the power of the worlds APIs. For aquick introduction to z/OS Connect EE, see our video.

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Announcing the IBM Record Generator for JavaThe JZOS Record Generator was a popular way for CICS users to build Java records fromCOBOL or Assembler data, the only issue was it wasn't supported... Well we're changingthat! We've just announced a fully supported offering which will be made available at noadditional charge to z/OS clients. For a quick overview of this technology, see ourDeveloper Center page.

OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS V5.5.0We're pleased to announce a new release of OMEGAMON, enabling CICS systemsadministrators to monitor and manage CICS resources proactively and with reducedcomplexity. Find out about this release and the IBM Service Management Suite for z/OS inthis blog.

Blogs and articles

IBM SDK for Node.js – z/OS – CICS samples now available Explore the potential of IBM Z and the newly announced support for Node.js. Inthis blog, Mark Hollands shares his insight into how CICS can take advantage ofthis new capability, and provides some samples to help you try it out for yourself!

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CICS Support for Java EE 7Get an overview of CICS' support for Java, and an understanding of thedifference between Java SE and Java EE in this blog from Mark Cocker.

Using CICS policy system rules to monitor system healthEquivalent functionality to system events, but with far simpler configuration!Discover more in this post from Andy Wharmby.

Hands-on experience with the IBM z Systems Trial ProgramMike Perera, VP of IBM Z Software, shares his thoughts on the latest trial offeringthat enables you to evaluate our products without charge, and without needing toinstall anything.

Events and conferences

DevOps for IBM Z, July 25th - 27th, Virtual Conference Learn from industry leaders in an interactive, online environment, and discoverhow using the right tools in the right ways makes all the difference!View the agenda and register here!

IBM Systems Technical University, August 8th -10th, Sao Paulo, BrazilGrow your skills with in-depth technical training at Club Med Lake Paradise inSao Paulo, Brazil. Learn how you can harness the power of IBM Systems

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solutions to help turn your IT challenges into successes.Register here!

SHARE, August 6th - 11th, Providence, Rhode Island, USThis event is your one-stop shop for enterprise IT education. SHARE Providencewill be crafted to help enterprise IT professionals expand knowledge, enhanceskills and increase organizational efficiencies. Register now!

IBM Systems Technical University, October 9th -13th, Munich, GermanyPremier IBM European conference for IBM Z education. This conference includesa dedicated CICS track, so you can quickly get to grips with the latest CICS TSV5.4 technologies. Be sure to register now!

Training and education

CICS Performance SeriesKnow your MIPs from your MSUs with this educational series of videos from CICSperformance expert John Burgess. Find them on our Developer Center.

Java Redbooks SeriesLearn about architecting Java solutions in CICS with our IBM Redbooks videocourses. Each course consists of a series of video lectures addressing variousaspects of using Java in CICS. Complete the courses here.

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