Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: CICS what is it?
Message-ID: <808@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 19:04:22 GMT
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <2081@cuuxb.ATT.COM>, kjc@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT4134000~Kevin Coulter~C29~L18~6282~) writes:
> In article <5740@utah-cs.UUCP> u-dmfloy%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-cs.UUCP (Daniel M Floyd) writes:
> >CICS.
> >
> >Since I don't know what it is, I don't know where to post;
> >however, I think it's some sort of language.
> 
> What it basically is is an operating system that allows on line transactions. 

Not quite. It's a "conversation monitor" for the MVS operating system (roughly 
analogous to sh in UNIX, very roughly), It's tunable (or programmable if 
you prefer) and optimised for transaction processing.

> As far as I know, the only two languages you can use with it are 
> COBOL & assembler. 

You can also use the IMS DBMS and I think DB2 with CICS.


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