Course Description

CICS Transaction Server Differences

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Benefits

Attendees will learn about the changes in each of the recent CICS releases and how to deal with them in terms of their applications. Emphasis is given to those things requiring or needing change and new capabilities.

Audience

Programmers, analysts, and managers needing to understand the changes to CICS with the advent of CICS Transaction Server. This course is oriented toward those involved in application development, rather than towards system programmers. Some technical details are discussed, but, from an applications view.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of CICS is assumed. Experience designing and coding CICS applications is helpful.

Recommended Materials

This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

• CICS TS (1.1-1.3) and CICS 4.1
• Resource definition differences
• Enhanced ASSIGN options
• Improved data tables and VSAM RLS
• Security access improvements
• Storage improvements and protection
• Transaction isolation, MRO and ISC
• CEMT and CEDF enhancements
• CMAC, CETR, and CIND transactions
• Replace RCT with DB2CONN, DB2ENTRY, and DB2TRAN
• COBOL for OS/390 & VM support (Elimination of OS/VS COBOL)
• COBOL3, OOCOBOL, C++, and C
• New EXEC CICS commands & options
• Dynamic program link (DPL), External CICS Interface (ECI), External Presentation Interface (EPI), CICS Web Interface (WCI), CICW 3270-Bridge, CICS Web Server (CWS), JCICS, JGATE, CICS Transparent Gateway, End Programming Interface (FEPI)
• Recovery, trace, dump, & journal changes
• Migration planning

Exercises

There are no exercises.

Note

This is a lecture only class. A one-day version of the class is available for those familiar with CICS/ESA Version 4 who need only information about CICS Transaction Server.