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Welcome to the 'emulated'

KICKS is not CICS world of IBM mainframes

KICKS is an enhancement for CMS & TSO that lets you run your CICS On this blog I will take you with me
thru the adventures on a mainframe,
applications directly instead of having to 'install' those apps in CICS. You don't how to operate it and do some
even need CICS itself installed on your mainframe system. programming. This will of cours...

KICKS is free, and is a close copy of the IBM CICS transaction processing
system. See this link, but the usage is like an very old CICS system. For those
in the know, no CEDA or CEMT, all is done by tables and compiled versions of
them.
KICKS runs as any application under TSO, but can be used as multiuser!

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Welcome to the 'emulated'
world of IBM mainframes
The emulated mainframe
KICKS provides a high level of source code compatibility with CICS so you can move an software
application either way between CICS and KICKS simply by recompiling. Whether for ease of KICKS is not CICS
testing, fast deployment to small groups of your users, or simple "guerrilla marketing", join your Step 1 - Transaction flow in
colleagues using KICKS to speed up their development. TK4
Step 2 - Design a BMS

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Being TSO/CMS based, KICKS can't support the many thousands of users a multi-user system
like CICS can. But if KICKS can't support thousands of users, it can certainly support a few
hundred of your users, and if having separate address spaces means it can't run as many users
it also means your users aren't so tied to each other's fates - one crash does not kill all. This
reduced consequence of failure often means your new application's "Time to Market" can be
dramatically shortened.
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Like CICS, KICKS supports file sharing among its users. Hundreds of TSO or CMS users share
db2 tables or VSAM files with no more concern about doing so than CICS users - and since
KICKS VSAM support is also available in batch there's usually no need to "close" KICKS VSAM
files just so such batch jobs can access them.
Unlike CICS, KICKS requires no special systems or security services and can be easily
installed and used by a single applications programmer with a TSO or CMS account.

You can find KICKS here to download, user guide here, and installing is in this video:

KICKS ( CICS ) for IBM MVS …

Installing is not difficult, but needs some knowledge of MVS system, what you can find on the
Moshix channel on youtube. Of course you can google yourself, but the videos are highly
recommended to start learning the system. We will take a look later on this, but for now we
study KICKS, the free CICS replacement.

at July 26, 2019

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