Biographical Sketch: Danny Mace is the Director of CICS Products at IBM, responsible for development of CICS Transaction Server, CICS Transaction Gateway, TXSeries, and the CICS Tools that form a central part of IBM's middleware software portfolio. Danny joined IBM in 1990 as a software engineer, and over the last 22 years he has led the development of various software solutions within the Tivoli, WebSphere, and Rational brands. He is based out of the IBM Hursley lab in the UK.