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Designing and Programming CICS Applications
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Designing and Programming CICS Applications

by John Horswill, Members of the CICS Development Team at IBM Hursley
July 2000
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
9h 41m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Introduction

In this chapter:

Computer systems are used for many different purposes in business today. These range from keeping personal to-do lists to developing business-critical applications in banks. Applications are often categorized by their purpose. For example:

Personal productivity and groupware

The use of Personal Computers (PCs) for word processing, electronic mail (email), and document sharing using a Local Area Network (LAN).

Design and development

Computer-aided design and software development.

Manufacturing and production

Monitoring and control applications in factories.

Business intelligence

Data warehousing applications used to aid decision-making, arising from powerful, large-scale databases.

Business operations

Business operations applications (sometimes called line of business applications) that “transact the business” of a company—in other words, they perform business transactions on behalf of the company. This is not limited to cash-for-goods transactions. It can include any buyer/supplier transaction that can be translated into a digital format, as well as internal business processes dealing with company resources. For example:

  • Credit card transactions

  • Cash transactions from a bank’s Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) or supermarket cash dispenser

  • Stock market transactions for a stock exchange or brokerage

  • Information transactions for collecting, collating, ...

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