IBM WM806G - CICS V5.3 Fundamentals

Course Outline

Course introduction
Introducing CICS
CICS supplied transactions
Exercise: CICS supplied transactions
Defining CICS resources
Exercise: Defining CICS resources
Introducing the CICS Explorer
Exercise: Using the CICS Explorer
Managing data integrity
Data access
Exercise: Exploring data resources
CICS security
Startup and shutdown
Exercise: Managing CICS resources
CICSPlex System Management overview
Designing CICS applications
Exercise: Exploring CICS web services
Writing CICS programs
Exercise: Reviewing CICS BMS maps
Testing and debugging CICS programs
Exercise: Debugging applications with EDF
CICS intercommunication
Course summary

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the role of CICS in a business transaction environment and its support for modern interfaces
• Identify the major business advantages of CICS TS V5.3
• Outline the flow of a typical CICS transaction
• Describe the functions that the primary CICS supplied transactions perform
• Use the CICS master terminal transaction (CEMT) to query and control system resources
• Describe various ways of defining resources in CICS
• Use transactions that CICS supplies to define and manage resources
• Explain how CICS stores and manages resource definitions
• Describe the features, advantages, and use of the CICS and z/OS Explorer
• Use the CICS Explorer to connect, navigate, and manage resources
• List the CICS recoverable resources and how they provide data integrity
• Describe CICS transaction backout and forward recovery
• Describe the facilities that CICS provides for maintaining data integrity
• Describe CICS support for databases, Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files, queuing, and IBM MQ
• Use the CICS transactions and CICS Explorer to create and explore CICS queues, files, and database resources
• Describe how CICS implements security, the types of security, and what it uses for user identification and authentication
• List the types of CICS starts and shutdowns
• List the facilities that CICSPlex System Manager provides to manage the CICS topologies and its role in cloud enablement
• Describe the functions of presentation, business, and data access logic
• Define the role and use of the COMMAREAs and CHANNELs in CICS applications
• Show how CICS basic mapping support (BMS) supports the 3270 display
• Describe the different types of CICS application designs and supported programming architectures for both procedural and object-oriented languages
• Describe how CICS implements web services support for SOAP and JSON services
• Use the CICS Explorer to explore CICS web services
• Use Rational Developer for System z to explore map resources
• Describe the syntax of a CICS command and how to handle exception processing
• Use the transactions that CICS supplies for testing and debugging
• Describe the facilities that are available in CICS for intercommunication