Now there is another twist to that - someone is writing a CICS clone for 
MVS3.8 and has named it KICKS :) It's already running some simple CICS 
COBOL applications.

Mohammad


On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:50:46 -0400, Don Williams <donb...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>Early in my career, I started pronouncing CICS - kicks. Others sysprogs
>tried correcting me: C-I-C-S. Then I went to a class and found that I was
>not the only one pronouncing it - kicks. I polled my classmates and kicks
>won. I felt good. So no matter what IBM renames it; if it looks like CICS,
>runs like CICS, I'm going to call it kicks.
>

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