The Evolution of CICS - Table of Contents

In this section of the web site, you will find a collection of articles describing some aspect of the evolution of CICS - what happened, when, and why was it significant then and now.

• Bob Yelavich (1957-1968)
• Five Important Concepts (1968-2003)
• A Sample Program (1968)
• Myth and Matter (1968)
• The Early Environments (1968)
• CICS Services for Performance (1968)
• CICS Reentrancy and Reusability (1968)
• CICS and the Single TCB (1968+)
• CICS as a Program Product (1969)
• CICS - State of the Art (1969)
• The Language and Terminal Feature (1970)
• CICS - State of the Art (1970)
• The History of CICS on DOS (1970-1987)
• A DB/DC Strategy is Born (1971)
• A Product Family is Born (1971)
• The CICS/IMS Saga Begins (1971)
• CICS Grows Early and Rapidly (1971)
• TCAM - Message Switching and More (1971)
• CICS - State of the Art (1971)
• Initial CICS Support for the IBM 3270 Display System (1972)
• CICS - State of the Art (1972)
• CICS and the DL/I Requirement (1972-1989)
• CICS in Transition to CICS/VS (1973)
• CICS and Virtual Storage (1973)
• FASTER Language Feature (FLF) (1973)
• CICS/VS Establishes Itself (1973-1975)
• CICS - State of the Art (1973)
• CICS Moves to Hursley, England (1974-1976)
• CICS - State of the Art (1974)
• CICS/VS - Managing Evolution (1975)
• CICS - State of the Art (1975)
• CICS and the World of VTAM/SNA (1976)
• CICS - State of the Art (1976)
• CICS/VS 1.3 - A Major Turning Point for CICS (1977)
• CICS - State of the Art (1977)
• CICS/VS 1.4 and Distributed Systems (1978)
• CICS - State of the Art (1978)
• CICS/VS 1.5 Continues CICS' Rapid Growth (1979)
• CICS - State of the Art (1979)
• CICS and Multi-region Operation (1980)
• CICS - State of the Art (1980)
• Behind the Scenes (1981)
• CICS - State of the Art (1981)
• CICS/VS 1.6 & 31-bit Addressability (1982)
• CICS/DOS/VS 1.6 - Keeping Pace (1982)
• CICS - State of the Art (1982)
• CICS/OS/VS 1.6.1 - IMS Data Base Sharing and More (1983)
• CICS - State of the Art (1983)
• The Decade of FDPs and IUPs (1973-1984)
• CICS - State of the Art (1984)
• CICS/OS/VS 1.7 - a BIG (!) Release (1985)
• CICS on VM - Try it, you'll like it (1985)CICS - State of the Art (1985)
• CICS/DOS/VS 1.7 - Me too and more (1986)
• CICS - State of the Art (1986)
• CICS/OS/VS 1.8 - The release that never was (1987)
• CICS - State of the Art (1987)
• Macro Level - The Beginning of the End (1988)
• CICS/ESA - CICS Re-architects Itself (1988)
• CICS OS/2 - CICS for the Personal Computer (1988)
• CICS - State of the Art (1988)
• CICS - State of the Art (1989)
• CICS/MVS 2.1 Delivers Data Tables and More (1989)
• CICS - State of the Art (1990)
• DMS - Development Management System V1.5 (1991)
• CICS for the IBM AS/400 (1991)
• CICS - State of the Art (1991)
• CICS on UNIX - Good, bad or indifferent? (1992)
• CICS/ESA - A New Beginning (1988-1992)
• CICS - State of the Art (1992)
• CICS - State of the Art (1993)
• CICS/ESA 4.1 - A Few of My Favorite Things? (1994)
• CICS - State of the Art (1994)
• CICS Support of Client/Server Applications (1995)
• CICS - State of the Art (1995)
• CICS - State of the Art (1996)
• CICS Transaction Server Makes Its Debut (1996)
• CICS - State of the Art (1997)
• CICS TS 1.2 Delivers DASD Logging, 3270 Bridge (1997)
• CICS Transaction Server 1.3 - Bricks & Mortar (1998)
• CICS - State of the Art (1998)
• CICS - State of the Art (1999)
• CICS - State of the Art (2000)
• Enterprise Java Beans - Why now? (2001)
• CICS Performance Analysis (1973-2003)
• CICS and Objects - What's in a Name? (1976-2003)
• The Ten Year Evolution of CICS Web Support (2003)
• CICS - 35 Years of Milestones (1969-2004)
• CICS and Multiprocessor Exploitation (2004)
• CICS - What's in a Name? (1968-2004)