K110 CICS Command Level Coding

Course Code: K-110
Recommended Duration: 5 Days

Benefits

This course provides participants with a hands-on opportunity to learn how CICS works, and how to code effective CICS programs. Students completing this course can be immediately productive as CICS programmers.

Audience

Programmers, and analysts who will design and code programs using Command Level CICS.

Prerequisites

Students should have 6 months experience designing and coding application programs in COBOL, PL/I, or C; or have completed the "Structured COBOL Workshop" course within the last 12 months. Recent experience using ISPF/PDF (especially the text editor) and the ability to code JCL to run simple batch jobs is necessary to complete class assignments.

Related IBM Materials

CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Application Programming Guide (current version)
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Application Programming Reference (current version)

Major Topics Include

CICS Command Level syntax
3270-type terminal and BMS maps definition
BMS map processing commands
Pseudo-conversational programming
Editing
Using VSAM I/O commands and data (Direct access and Browsing)
Debugging with CEDF, CEBR, CEMT, CECI, and CMAC
Passing control and data
Temporary Storage Queues
Transient Data Queues
CICS Dumps and Trace Tables

Exercises

There are eight machine exercises and one paper exercise.

Special Notes

This course covers the latest version of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, but, is also suitable for shops still running CICS Version 4 or CICS Version 3.
Course may be modified to include discussion of different BMS map generating tools or debugging products.
This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

Course Description

CICS Command Level Coding