IBM CICS Transaction Server vs. Rocket Performance Essential

IBM CICS Transaction Server

Rocket Performance Essential

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM CICS Transaction Server	Score 8.9 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
Rocket Performance Essential	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Rocket Performance Essential cuts batch processing times and resource consumption without manual performance tuning to help the user's mainframe environment operate more efficiently, with batch I/O that is optimized automatically. Performance Essential helps lower a mainframe system's overhead without modifying applications and improve data center and end-user productivity and frees mainframe performance team to focus on other tasks and extend the life of critical applications.	N/A

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IBM CICS Transaction Server

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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Features

IBM CICS Transaction Server

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Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	IBM CICS Transaction Server 8.0 2 Ratings 1% above category average	Rocket Performance Essential - Ratings
IDE support	5.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security management	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Administration and management	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Application server performance	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Installation	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	7.02 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	IBM CICS Transaction Server	Rocket Performance Essential
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User Ratings
	IBM CICS Transaction Server	Rocket Performance Essential
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM CICS Transaction Server	Rocket Performance Essential
Likelihood to Recommend	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 Anonymous Read full review	Rocket Software No answers on this topic
Pros	IBM De facto standard in the legacy enterprise Multiplatform connection Native connection with DB2 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Rocket Software No answers on this topic
Cons	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 Anonymous Read full review	Rocket Software No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 Anonymous Read full review	Rocket Software No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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 Anonymous Read full review	Rocket Software No answers on this topic
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