Many shops today are still running CICS TS V1.3 and wondering why they should move to CICS TS V2.2 or V2.3 or the latest V3.1 that went GA in March. This article provides a high level overview of new features offered in CICS TS V2.2, V2.3 and V3.3, gives a background of Java evolution under CICS, reviews support for EJB, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and shows the direction IBM is taking with future CICS development.