Overview

What IBM CICS TX can do for your business

IBM® CICS® TX is a comprehensive, single package of a transactional runtime with a COBOL compiler enabled on Red Hat® OpenShift®. It can provide a cloud native deployment model for standalone applications. The solution can also be optimized for integration with IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®. IBM CICS TX can offer innovation and cost reductions through a platform agnostic architecture and open-source tooling.
Highlights of the various features and use cases of CICS TX

Highlights of the various features and use cases of CICS TX (01:57)

Features

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Quicker time-to-value

Take advantage of Red Hat certified container images with pre-tested components on Red Hat OpenShift.

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Optimize COBOL applications

Build and modernize COBOL applications with integrated IBM COBOL for Linux® on x86.

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Enable horizontal scaling

Horizontally scale distributed CICS online applications without application changes.

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Monitor CICS applications

Use open source, cloud-native, industry standard tools to monitor your applications.

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Achieve container orchestration

Leverage industry standard tooling such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker.

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Harness hybrid connectivity

Utilize a hybrid infrastructure with a flexible solution that works alongside CICS Transaction Server for z/OS.

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Pricing

60 day trial CICS TX Standard CICS TX Advanced

A no-charge product for non-production use within 60 days.

For first cloud deployments of COBOL applications.

For enterprise grade applications looking to balance investment across on-premise (z/OS) applications and cloud environments for COBOL workloads.
  • • Evaluation
  • • No charge
  • • Vertical scaling or up to 5 applications
  • • 5 pods per namespace
  • • Development and production
  • • Virtual processor core with monthly license
  • • IBM Support
  • • Vertical scaling of up to 5 applications
  • • 5 pods per namespace
  • • Development and production
  • • Virtual processor core with monthly and perpetual license options
  • • IBM Support
  • • Unlimited vertical scaling
  • • Unlimited pods per namespace
  • • Load balancing

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Resources

IBM CICS TX Trial

Try the CICS TX 11.1 trial at no charge.

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IBM CICS TX user stories

Learn how customers gain the most value from IBM CICS TX.

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System requirements

Browse the list of supported IBM and vendor-acquired software for use with IBM CICS TX.

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IBM CICS TX User Group

A community for CICS TX users and useful materials for your IBM CICS TX journey.

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Getting started with IBM CICS TX

Get a brief introduction into the product and its capabilities.

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Next steps

Get started optimizing your CICS workloads.

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