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CICS Fundamentals

Duration: 3 Days

Overview:

This course replaces CI010. Learn how to describe major CICS concepts and facilities that are applicable to the entire CICS family of products. You will learn how CICS uses management functions and tables for transaction processing and on-line system management. This course also introduces the CICS Application Programming Interface (API) along with general guidelines and programming aids that supports application development. Hands-on lab exercises reinforce the lecture material.

Who Should Take This Course:

Information systems personnel with little or no CICS experience, This includes CICS application designers, application programmers, system programmers or operators.
This course also provides the basic prerequisites to the CICS application and systems programming courses.

What You Are Taught:

• Describe the role of CICS in a business transaction environment
• Explain the processing flow of a user transaction in terms of CICS management functions and their tables
• Describe the processes that support a CICS application program, including program preparation, map preparation, resource definition, and debugging
• Identify the purpose of selected CICS supplied transactions
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  Describe the facilities that CICS provides for maintaining the integrity of data associated with CICS programs
• Describe the facilities available in CICS for intercommunication
• Describe CICS' role in a client/server environment
• Use selected CICS supplied transactions to modify the status of CICS resources

Topics Include:

• CICS Introduction
• CICS Supplied Transactions
• Application Design (Presentation Logic, Business Logic, Data Logic)
• Application Programming
• Resource Definition
• Recovery/Restart
• File and Database Facilities
• Data Queuing Facilities
• CICS Intercommunication
• Queuing Facilities of CICS

Prerequisites:

A basic knowledge of data processing is required.