CICS Transaction Server in your SOA

Here's an interesting publication from Andrew Bates (IBM) : 'CICS Transaction Server in your SOA, subtitled 'links to more information on the CICS ecosystem'. in fact it's set up as a presentation with links to all kinds of CICS TS related information like "Redbook publications, Whitepapers, Webcasts, Teleconferences, or other articles pertaining to the topic. Issue 3 became available in May of 2008. Updates are flagged so you can identify them easily". Here's the summary of the pages and their topics :

• CICS Transaction Server
• Families that support CICS
• Enterprise Modernization and CICS
• Tivoli® support for CICS
• CICS Service Flow Feature
• CICS and service oriented architecture (SOA)
• CICS and WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) infrastructure
• CICS and Business Process Management (BPM)
• CICS and Web Services
• CICS Transaction Gateway
• CICS and WebSphere MQ
• CICS and Java™
• Channels and Containers
• Threadsafe and open transaction environment (OTE)
• CICSPlex® Systems Manager (SM)
• CICS Tools
• Problem Determination Tools
• Rational® support for CICS
• COBOL and CICS

If you want to be kept up to date and receive following issues, just send a mail to Andrew Bates.