Gunicorn vs. IBM CICS Transaction Server

Gunicorn

1 Reviews and Ratings

IBM CICS Transaction Server

17 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Gunicorn	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is an open source Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model. The Gunicorn server is presented as broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.	N/A
IBM CICS Transaction Server	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System) is mixed-language application server that runs on IBM z/OS. CICS® Transaction Server, often called CICS, is used for hosting transactional enterprise applications in a hybrid architecture.	N/A

Pricing

Gunicorn

IBM CICS Transaction Server

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Pricing Offerings
Gunicorn	IBM CICS Transaction Server
Free Trial
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Features

Gunicorn

IBM CICS Transaction Server

Comparison of Application Servers features of Gunicorn and IBM CICS Transaction Server
Feature	Gunicorn - Ratings	IBM CICS Transaction Server 8.2 3 Ratings 3% above category average
IDE support	00 Ratings	7.92 Ratings
Security management	00 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Administration and management	00 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Application server performance	00 Ratings	9.03 Ratings
Installation	00 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	00 Ratings	8.03 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Gunicorn	IBM CICS Transaction Server
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Gunicorn	IBM CICS Transaction Server
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source No answers on this topic	IBM IBM CICS Transaction Server is multi-decades proven transaction server which is very scalable, very secured, easy to use, has good transactional capabilities, works well all other mainframe resources such as Db2, languages on IBM mainframe, has access control capabilities in terms of who can access the transaction for read mode vs update mode, etc. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Open Source No answers on this topic	IBM De facto standard in the legacy enterprise Multiplatform connection Native connection with DB2 Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Open Source No answers on this topic	IBM Would like to see the transaction response matrix on the average transaction response among all requests. Would like to see GUI tool to be able to see currently running transactions Would like to be able to get the details of where the cics transaction was triggered from Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	Open Source No answers on this topic	IBM Need a good knowledge of mainframe and z/OS capability. May be difficult to understand for a beginner (specially CPSM). In a complex architecture, need a high skill to do problem determination Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Open Source No answers on this topic	IBM There is no comparison, in practice, the possibility of using the latest programming languages but, above all, the databases can be different and more modern than DL1. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Open Source No answers on this topic	IBM It has allowed us to use our decades old code and still continue to support the business Allows us to have faster time to market and modernize our systems We can still continue to use our legacy resources for modern systems Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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