K108 CICS Transaction Server Differences

Course Code: K-108
Recommended Duration: 1-2 Days

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.

Related IBM Materials

Access to the following IBM manual (in print or on-line) may be useful (not required):

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Release Guide (current version)

Major Topics Include

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), CICS 3270-Bridge, CICS Web Server (CWS), JCICS, JGATE, CICS Transparent Gateway, Front End Programming Interface (FEPI)
Recovery, trace, dump, & journal changes
Migration planning

Exercises

There are no exercises.

Special Notes

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.
This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

Course Description

CICS Transaction Server Differences