Welcome
The information held on this site is based on the owner's experience, and has been produced and used by the owner.
All examples relating to z/OS have been used from 2003 onwards when the first z/OS 1.3 system was acquired. That system together
with z/VM and z/VSE were run single handed until 2015, when KMS-IT Limited ceased trading.
Since then access to z/OS is available, with z/OS 2.5 now in use
Although his CICS experience dates back to 1979, the CICS/TS examples have only been exploited since 2008 when the first CICS WEB application was coded probably using CICS/TS 3.1.
This application provided the ability to submit jobs from a WEB Browser and recover the output from JES2 Spool back to the browser.
This neatly pulled together ancient and modern as the application took advantage of IBM Assembler, COBOL, CSS, HTML,
JavaScript, and some Java with many components being stored in z/OS UNIX System Services.
During three months from May 2020 two WEB-based applications were produced, using CICS/TS 5.5 as the server. The
first application involved around 30 programs allowing administration of the z/OS 2.4 system via a Browser. The aim
was to aid an apprentice with no knowledge of the mainframe environment. The second application involves converting
five courses to allow delivery via a browser. Audio files (MP3) form part of delivery. The only reason MP4 files
are not yet included is the lack of suitable editing software. (These applications now run in CICS/TS 6.1 on z/OS 2.5).
This site was hand crafted using GlobalScape's CuteHTML to edit the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and JavaScript. CuteHTML has subsequently been replaced by the CoffeeCup HTML Editor.
The original up-load software was GlobalScape's CuteFTP, but this has been superceded by Filezilla from NCH Software, and WinSCP.