Course Description

CICS Command Level Coding

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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.

Recommended Materials

This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

• 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.

Notes

This course covers the latest version of CICS Transaction Server for OS/390, 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.