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Challenge 

A Fortune 500 investment bank and long-time client urgently needed to modernize their aging IT infrastructure.​​

Several applications were hard-coded into company systems, and the bank heavily relied on VSAM and internal tables. This created a precarious situation.​

Additionally, the team lacked experience with CICSPlex, making it difficult to understand IBM's documentation and adding complexity.​ 

CPT Global’s Actions 

CPT moved critical applications from single CICS regions to a highly available, redundant, and efficient CICSPlex environment.​​

Our team leveraged workload sharing and balancing to best utilize system resources and maximize performance. CPT also designed a solution to move existing hard-coded tables to a coupling facility structure with minimal application changes.​​

We then enabled jobs to call a transaction in any available region using the CICS CPSM API and developed a strategy for moving VSAM data sets into RLS for greater flexibility and scalability.​​

Finally, CPT provided webinar-based training on all aspects of this technology to educate employees and ensure successful implementation.​ 

Results 

  • 2x performance improvement via CICS/VSAM/Db2, enabling double workloads. 
  • 9 hours saved on a single job, boosting system efficiency. 
  • Trained employees on z/OS systems, CICS, and MQ groups to handle all aspects of daily operations.​ 

By partnering with CPT Global, the bank effectively accelerated its modernization efforts, achieving enhanced performance and internal expertise.

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Post by CPT Global
Mar 10, 2025 11:30:00 AM