CICS V4 Basic Tailoring

In this 5-day, instructor-led course, CICS system programmers learn the basic tasks that are needed to install and configure CICS Transaction Server (TS) for z/OS. The course begins with an overview of CICS TS for z/OS, and explains how to install and verify the product. Students learn how to tailor the system by defining transactions, programs, files, and other resources that CICS applications use. The course also provides a thorough introduction to the security and recovery concepts that are involved in administering new or existing installations of CICS TS. Class lectures include topics such as the Problem Determination Tools, intersystem communication, CICS DB2, Database Control (DBCTL), and the IBM WebSphere MQ interfaces. In lab exercises throughout the course, students practice their new CICS skills on a z/OS system that is configured specifically for this course. These hands-on exercises cover skills such as administering terminals, defining transactions and programs, defining files, defining recoverable resources, and using the CICS Explorer. This course is applicable to all releases of CICS TS V4.The lab environment for this course uses the Windows platform.