Although The Evans Group no longer consults, the web site lives on!

Russ has created a number of presentations on many topics related to CICS, written several articles for peer-reviewed technical journals, and developed a few sample programs, all of which are available for download here. Feel free to copy, print, modify, distribute, and re-use anything you find useful, but please credit us if you do.

An archive of Threadsafe specific presentations and articles can be found on the Threadsafe page.

Russ has written a number of articles for peer reviewed journals on the subjects of Threadsafe and CICS Web enablement:

•  CICS and the Open Transaction Environment: Are You Sure That Program Is Threadsafe?

• CICS and the Open Transaction Environment: What to Do Without DB2

• CICS and the Open Transaction Environment: A Retrospective

• The CICS Web Services Assistant and Support for Variable Arrays

• CICS TS 4.2 and Threadsafe Database Control for IMS

• CICS and the Open Transaction Environment

• Connecting CICS to the Internet: An Overview of Available Options

• Building Better Performance for Your DB2/CICS Programs With Threadsafe (Co-authored with Nate Murphy)

• Using the 3270 Bridge to Prototype Web Application Enablement

• CICS Transaction Server V2.2 Making Programs Threadsafe

• CICS Transaction Server V2.2 and Threadsafe

• Ensuring Customer Privacy in the Mainframe Environment

• Using GLUEs and TRUEs in CICS

Russ has been a speaker at Share for over ten years. The most up-to-date versions cover topics from debugging to threadsafe:

• Exploiting the CICS OTE, Share, February 2012, August 2013

• CICS TS and Threadsafe, Share, February 2003 – August, 2012
  Guide/Share Europe, 2009. Share “Best Session” winner 3/2008 & 8/2012

• Analyzing CICS Transaction Dumps, Share, February 2004 – 2008
  Share “Best Session” winner 3/2009. Guide/Share Europe, 2009

• CICS System Dump Analysis, Share, February 2006, August 2012
  Guide/Share Europe, 2009

Looking for the free CICS Core Display Utility? Click here for details.

Download the source code for some sample assembler programs that illustrate use of the CICS System Programmer programming interface:

(If you would prefer load modules of these programs, they are in the zip file with the Core Display Utility)

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