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Course Description

Advanced CICS Command Level Coding
 

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Course Code: K-115
Recommended Duration: 4 Days

Benefits

This course provides participants with a hands-on opportunity to learn and practice advanced CICS programming techniques, including the use of DB2. Emphasis is placed on efficient use of CICS. In addition, recent developments in CICS are covered to allow students who learned CICS under earlier releases to use the best coding techniques.

Audience

CICS programmers needing to enhance their skills with CICS.

Prerequisites

The student entering this course should have 6 months recent experience programming in CICS or have completed the "CICS Command Level Coding" course within the last 12 months.

Recommended Materials

In addition to the student handouts, the student should have access to the following IBM manuals (in print or on-line):

CICS Transaction Server for OS/390:

SC33-1687 Application Programmers Guide
SC33-1688 Application Programmer Reference
SX33-6104 User’s Handbook

CICS/ESA Version 4:

SC33-1169 Application Programmers Guide
SC33-1170 Application Programmer Reference
SX33-1188 User’s Handbook

This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

 

Major Topics Include
  • Recent changes to CICS
  • Performance factors
  • Multiple Region Operation (MRO)
  • File processing and Browsing
  • File/database integrity
  • DB2 use
  • Effective use of COMMAREA
  • Temporary storage
  • Reducing line transmissions & MDT
  • Use of Dynamic Storage and SET
  • Transfer techniques
  • Transient Data
  • STARTed tasks
  • CICS backup and recovery

Exercises

There are seven machine exercises.

Note

This course covers the latest version of CICS Transaction Server for OS/390, but, is also suitable for shops still running CICS Version 3 or 4.

A one day version of the "DB2/CICS Interface" course may be added to cover the specifics of the DB2/CICS interface.
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