John Tilling is a Senior Software Engineer and CICS TS Development Lead at the IBM Hursley Laboratory in the United Kingdom. He joined IBM in 1985 having graduated from York University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. He has 35+ years of experience developing CICS, working on components such as EXCI, file control, CICS-DBCTL, and was responsible for restructuring the CICS-DB2 and CICS-MQ Attachment Facilities to exploit Open Transaction Environment (OTE). He is first point of contact for CICS RFEs and has been a regular speaker at IBM and User Technical Conferences and customer briefings including hosting the CICS Architecture Forum (CAF) in Hursley 2014-17.
Email: tilling@uk.ibm.com