CICS V5 Fundamentals

Course details

In this instructor-led, entry-level course, you learn about the basic concepts and facilities of IBM CICS Transaction Server V5. After completing this course, you have the prerequisite knowledge for all of the follow-on CICS application and systems programming courses that IBM Training offers.

Target Audience:

This basic course is designed for IT personnel who have little or no CICS experience.

Prerequisites:

You should have:

• a basic knowledge of data processing and an IBM operating system.
• Some programming experience in a high-level language like COBOL or Java is helpful.

Content:

• Course introduction
• Introducing CICS
• CICS-supplied transactions
• Exercise: CICS-supplied transactions
• Defining CICS resources
• Exercise: Defining CICS resources
• Introducing the CICS Explorer
• Exercise: Using the CICS Explorer
• CICSPlex System Manager overview
• CICS security
• Managing data integrity
• Startup and shutdown
• Exercise: Managing CICS resources
• Data access
• Exercise: Managing files and queues
• Designing CICS applications
• Exercise: Reviewing CICS BMS maps
• Writing CICS programs
• Testing and debugging CICS programs
• Exercise: Debugging applications by using CEDF
• CICS intercommunication
• Course summary