CICS System Overview

 LENGTH OF COURSE:
 1-2 Days

DESCRIPTION: This intense course examines the fundamental concepts, facilities, and feature of CICS. It presents the latest in CICS facilities and shows how these facilities can be used in a production setting.

PREREQUISITES: Students need to have an understanding of basic information processing terminology and concepts.

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture, Hands-On Labs, and Exercises (where/when available).

AUDIENCE

Programmers, Technicians, and Managers that need a basic understanding of the CICS environment.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Identify the use and purpose of CICS in the information processing environment
  • CICS interacts with other system software components
  • CICS terminology and abbreviations are used in the environment
  • CICS emulates an "ON-LINE" terminal environment
  • Using CICS functions and utilities
  • CICS communicates with other CICS/non-CICS systems
  • To distinguish the characteristics of Batch vs. On-line processing, including:
    • Submit, Release, JCL
    • Transactions/Jobs/Tasks
  • Evaluate typical system configurations
    • Batch address spaces / CICS address spaces
    • Operating system interaction
    • CICS/VTAM interaction
    • Application program interaction
  • CICS Control Components


  • CICS Release Overview
    • What is new?
    • Direction of the product
    • Features
  • CICS Extended Facilities, including:
    • RDO, XRF, MRO, ISC, CICSPLEX, DTR, DPL
    • CICS in a Client/Server environment
  • The CICS application is prepared and executed, including:Compile Flow
    • Language restrictions and problems
    • Command format
  • Basic Mapping Support including:
    • Maps, Mapsets, 3270 Datastreams
    • Field, Map, and Mapset definitions
  • CICS supplied transactions
  • CICS management methodologies


FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"Scott was very enthusiastic about the subject of CICS and he brought, into his lectures, the real world with his own OJT experience. He enjoys what he is doing, which makes the class more enjoyable."

Shan Nowak
Westbridge Capital Corp.

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