CICS or Customer Information Control System as it was once known, now pronounced “kicks” is a transaction delivery platform for the mainframe. I have been working with it for 30 years or so. Recently it has been extended again, this time to support requests from PHP programs. Wow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtyHRAQROnw
Pretty exciting.
YouTube offers some related videos at the end of each video. The choice below was offered.
Unrelated to CICS or PHP (or perhaps I do not really grok either one). But you may recognize parts of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFFW-wBG3c
The scene from Pi is especially well remembered. One of our favorite movies here.