New Ways of Running Batch Applications on z/OS Vol. I: CICS Transaction Server

A draft IBM Redbooks publication


Abstract

Mainframe computers play a central role in the daily operations of many of the worlds largest corporations. Batch processing is still a fundamental, mission-critical component of the workloads that run on the mainframe and a large portion of the workload on IBM® z/OS® systems is processed in batch mode.

This IBM Redbooks® publication is the first volume in a series of four in which we specifically address new technologies introduced by IBM to facilitate the use of hybrid batch applications that combine the best aspects of Java and procedural programming languages such as COBOL. This volume specifically focuses on the latest support in CICS to run batch tasks.

The audience for this book includes IT architects and application developers, with a focus on batch processing on the z/OS platform in a CICS environment.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to CICS batch support for WebSphere XD Compute Grid
Chapter 2. Running batch applications in CICS
Chapter 3. Key components of a Compute Grid application
Chapter 4. Application design considerations
Chapter 5. End to end development scenario
Chapter 6. Extensions to the base example
Appendix A. Additional material

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20 February 2013


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ISBN-10
0738437948

ISBN-13
9780738437941

IBM Form Number
SG24-7991-00

Number of pages
72

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