K115 Advanced CICS Command Level Coding

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.

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

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.

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.
A one day version of the "DB2/CICS Interface" course may be added to cover the specifics of the DB2/CICS interface.
This course is not available for licensing nor for RCT.

Course Description

Advanced CICS Command Level Coding