IBM WM816G - CICS V5.3 Systems Tailoring and Administration

Course Outline

Course introduction
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS overview
Installation and verification
Exercise: Getting acquainted with CICS TS for z/OS
Resource definition
Exercise: Preparing and starting a CICS region
Supporting terminal access
Exercise: Administering terminals
Defining transactions, programs, and map sets
Exercise: Defining transactions, programs, and map sets
File control functions and file definition
Exercise: Defining files and LSR pools
CICS queuing facilities
Exercise: Defining transient data queues
CICS intercommunication services
Exercise: Connecting systems
Administering application resources
Storage management and storage protection
System control
Exercise: Administering with CICS Explorer
Startup, recovery, and restart
Exercise: Defining recoverable resources and journal models
Accessing external resource manager data
Basic problem determination
Exercise: JSON web services, DB2 resources, and OTE
Measurement and evaluation
Security and the external security manager
Exercise: Statistics, dumps, and security
Sysplex support functions
Course summary

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Define and set up CICS regions
• Analyze application descriptions, define resources, and customize
• Define the major functions and parameters that are used to control CICS
• Identify CICS procedures
• Identify system control functions
• Administer CICS resources with CICS transactions and the CICS Explorer
• Define the functions of intercommunication services
• Identify sources of information that is necessary to aid problem determination
• Measure and evaluate information that is used to measure and tune the environment
• Describe how the other MVS resource managers that IBM offers interface with CICS Transaction Server
• Describe the choices for starting CICS programs and accessing CICS data from outside CICS
• Describe how CICS uses z/OS Sysplex