CICS Command Level Coding

Course details

In this course, you learn how to design, code, and debug command-level CICS application programs for e-business or traditional environments. The course applies to the entire family of CICS products.

Target Audience:

This intermediate course is designed for application developers and analysts who design, code, and debug CICS command level applications.

Prerequisites:

You should have:

• Working knowledge of the underlying operating system platforms
• Basic knowledge of CICS fundamentals as taught in CICS V5 Fundamentals (WM851G)
• COBOL or PL/I application development skills
• Basic knowledge of application design and programming

Content:

• Course introduction
• CICS application programming environment
• Designing CICS applications
• Exercise: Introducing Worldwide Books Online
• CICS command overview
• Exercise: Using CICS Explorer
• Exercise: Writing a pseudoconversational echo program
• Debugging CICS applications
• Exercise: Debugging applications by using CEDF
• CICS basic mapping support
• Exercise: Writing the WB presentation program
• CICS program-to-program control
• Exercise: Completing the WB presentation program
• Exercise: Linking to a CICS program from outside CICS
• CICS data access
• Exercise: Completing the WB customer program
• CICS queues
• Exercise: Completing the WB order program
• Exercise: Enhancing the WB application (optional)
• CICS front-end programming
• Service flow and event processing
• CICS web applications
• CICS Business Transaction Services
• Course summary