CICS gets sMashed
Posted by nicholsr on December 15th, 2008. Other posts by nicholsr
If you are a regular on the ProjectZero.org site then you’ll know IBM is pretty serious about unleashing the value of enterprise assets using Web 2.0 technologies, scripting and REST. Well, we just went a step further. On Friday IBM announced the immediate availability of sMash based PHP scripting in the CICS Transaction Server for Z/OS. CICS is the mainframe based transaction processing system that is responsible for delivering most of the worlds financial transactions from credit cards to bank transfers. You have probably already used CICS today without knowing it.
What IBM made available is a SupportPac which allows developers to write PHP code and run it within the scope of a CICS transaction. This can be used by enterprises to unleash selected mainframe based applications assets as REST feeds which can be used in Situational Applications using WebSphere sMash and Lotus Mashups. The technology used in the supportPac is part of WebSphere sMash and it uses almost identical convention based syntax for the creation of RESTFul web services. If you are familiar with sMash then you should feel at home programming in the CICS PHP environment.
Part of the reason to produce the SupportPac is to gain feedback. If you use the SupportPac with sMash then please let us know on the ProjectZero forums. If you have feedback on the SupportPac itself then please used the SupportPac Forum.
- Rob Nicholson
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