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2016 has been a fantastic year for CICS, and we hope it has been the same for you! As we’ve embarked on our continuous delivery journey, we wanted to use our final CICSbuzz before 2017 to highlight some of the key technologies and resources introduced this year. We’ve also got some new blogs and articles to sink your teeth into when you tire of mince pies.

JavaCICS and Java have never been better partners, with the introduction of standard mode and integrated mode for Liberty in CICS we have been able to support Java Enterprise Edition 7 Full Platform applications. Find out more on our Java page in the CICS Developer Center by clicking here.

CICS TS V5.4 Open betaThe CICS TS V5.4 open beta has showcased some great new technologies driving CICS forward: the new Asynchronous API to help reduce response times in particular when calling multiple services, the CICS provisioning toolkit to help you rapidly spin up purpose-built CICS environments as well as core foundational improvements to make CICS better than ever. Click here to try it out today.

CICS Developer CenterWe’ve drastically enhanced our CICS Developer Center over the year, bringing you tutorials, samples and the new CICS Performance Series videos. Need to understand your MIPS from your MSUs?Look no further, simply click here.

SHARE 2017, 5th to 10th March, San JoseThis user group conference is a fantastic place to expand your technical knowledge and enhance your skills. Register here before 01/20/2017 to get your hands on early bird discounted tickets!

InterConnect 2017, 19th to 23rd March, Las Vegas IBM's biggest conference is back - find out how businesses today are solving challenges in your industry. Don't miss the CICS sessions and hear from the experts!Click here to register and preview the 2017 sessions.

Link to Liberty now available in CICS TS V5.3Have you ever wanted to reuse some existing Java EE code as part of a CICS application? This article takes you through how you can prepare your Java EE application, running in a Liberty JVM server, to be invoked from any CICS program. To find out more, click here!

IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS: CICS ScenarioThis new Redbook explains the basic terms that are associated with the cloud services and which roles play a part in creating, using, and maintaining a cloud service. Click here to find out more.

Great new enhancements to CICS Performance AnalyzerSatish Tanna from the CICS team gives a great overview on the new enhancements to the CICS Performance Analyzer for the CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.3. To see examples of how you can extract statistics and read about the new enhancements to sample reports sets, take a look at the blog here.

Virtual CICS user group meeting 31 JanuaryWhat was your New Year's resolution? Join us on Jan 31 - see how UrbanCode can automate those time consuming tasks, meetings and reporting requirements to help you deploy new applications more quickly and a whole lot less stress. Click here to register today!

z/OS Connect EEIBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition (EE) lets you create efficient and scalable RESTful APIs to your z/OS assets, without writing any code! The latest release adds support for exposing DB2 assets, as well as several improvements to API management and lifecycle. You can now create an API that combines CICS, IMS, and DB2 services into a single RESTful interface.

Interested? Find out more about z/OS Connect EE here and grab the latest version of the open beta today.

Mainframe Efficiency‘Mainframe efficiency projects are never finished, just abandoned’. Sound familiar?Read Matt Whitbourne’s post on the topic and how offerings like z Operational Insights - which GA’d in September this year - can help you understand and optimize the performance of your z Systems solutions.

CICS TS for z/VSE V2.1This is the first release designed for use with z/VSE V6.1 and includes new functionality for resource management with the CICS Explorer and new APIs for transferring data between CICS applications. Read more here.

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OMEGAMON for JVMThis new stand-alone product, provides resource monitoring of all Java™ virtual machines (JVMs) on z/OS - including key metrics to help identify the performance of services provided by z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition. Read the announce letter here.

John Knutson's retirementYou may have noticed that the sender of this email has changed for this edition of the CICSbuzz - after 31 years at IBM, John Knutson is retiring. He has been an incredibly valued member of the CICS marketing team over the years and will be dearly missed. If you'd like to read more about his working life and wish him the best, read his blog post here.

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CICSbuzz editors: John Knutson, Nick Garrod, David Harris, Nele Daemgen & Eunjin Lee.

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