A trip through the new things you can do in CICS with COBOL, PL/I and C: This presentation looks at how desktop software such as WebSphere Enterprise Studio provides intelligent editors, integrated debuggers which use a common run-time environment under Language Environment. It also covers the CICS translator which is integrated with the compiler and explains how intelligent debugging tools make it easy to find programming errors. Finally the presentation looks at how the tools help create efficient programs for parsing XML simply and easily.