IBM WM851G - CICS V5 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
• CICSPlex System Manager overview
• CICS security
• Managing data integrity
• Startup and shutdown
• Exercise: Managing CICS resources
• Data access
• Exercise: Managing files and queues
• Designing CICS applications
• Exercise: Reviewing CICS BMS maps
• Writing CICS programs
• Testing and debugging CICS programs
• Exercise: Debugging applications by using CEDF
• CICS intercommunication
• Course summary

Objective

• Describe the role of CICS in a business transaction environment
• 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 of the CICS Explorer
• List the facilities that CICSPlex System Manager provides
• Describe how CICS implements security
• List the recoverable resources of CICS
• Describe CICS transaction backout and forward recovery
• List the types of CICS startup and shutdown
• Describe the facilities that CICS provides for maintaining the integrity of data that is associated with CICS programs
• Describe CICS support for databases and Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files
• 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 syntax of a CICS command
• Explain how to handle exceptions
• Use the transactions that CICS supplies for testing and debugging
• Describe the facilities that are available in CICS for intercommunication