Web site offers students online registration and access to their grades among other services.
With CICS and CrossPlex, RIT was able to use its CICS applications to deliver a fast and secure service straight to the Web. A major objective for RIT was to be able to continue to use existing CICS 3270 applications and give students more direct access to class availability, current grade information and financial records without changing applications. RIT had considered moving some of its student-related applications and data to smaller server computers, but rejected the idea on the basis of increased cost, staffing, education and maintenance. With its web site in place, RIT moved onto their next step for providing student access to most administrative applications. We have been very happy with the performance.