Preface
Mainframe computers play a central role in the daily operations of many of the world’s largest corporations. Batch processing is still a fundamental, mission-critical component of the workloads that run on the mainframe. A large portion of the workload on IBM® z/OS® systems is processed in batch mode.
This IBM Redbooks® publication is the first volume in a series in which we specifically address new technologies introduced by IBM to facilitate new ways to run batch applications on z/OS that combine the best aspects of Java and procedural programming languages such as COBOL. This volume specifically focuses on the latest support in IBM CICS® to run batch tasks.
The audience for this book includes IT architects and application developers, ...