Abstract:
The telecommunications monitor is an extremely complex software system crucial to the successful implementation of numerous computer applications. Any examination of telecommunications monitors will be somewhat incomplete due to the immense scope of the subject. There is a proliferation of telecommunications monitors available today, each having a tremendous amount of accompanying literature. To attempt to discuss all of the available systems, even in the most general of terms, would be ludicrous. The intent of this work is to provide a general introduction to the telecommunications monitor and its underlying concepts. This will be accomplished by examining, in general, a sampling of the various telecommunications monitors currently available on the market and, in some detail, IBM's CICS/VS system. The purpose of studying CICS/VS is to provide a background in the functioning and basic concepts of teleprocessing monitors, on which further study can be built in the future. The reason for selecting CICS/VS for detailed study is simples it is clearly the most widely used data communications monitor in use today, and will undoubtedly remain the industry standard well into the future.(1:70E-M91-02) This work introduces the basic concepts used by all telecommunications monitors and examines the actual implementation of these concepts.
