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CICS Fundamentals

CI01U      Course duration (days): 2
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Also known as: CI01UGB

About this class

This course is replaced by WM800GB

This course covers the major CICS concepts and facilities that are applicable to the CICS family of Products

Who will the lesson benefit?

All IT personnel who require a general introduction to CICS.

What delegates will learn

After completion you should be able to:

  • Outline the flow of a typical CICS transation
  • Describe the services of the primary CICS-supplied transactions
  • Use the CEMT transaction to inquire on system resources and control them
  • Describe the functions of presentation, business and data access logic
  • Define the role of the COMMAREA and CHANNELS in building applications
  • Explain the syntax of a CICS comman
  • Use the CICS-supplied transactions that assist in testing and debugging
  • Describe CICS support for databases and VSAM files
  • Explain the process of defining resources to CICS
  • Describe the types of CICS startup and shutdown
  • List the services provided by CICS intercommunication

What prerequisites are required

A basic knowledge of data processing.

Contents of this class

  • Introduction to CICS
  • Components of CICS
  • Transaction flow and design
  • Application Programming Interface
  • Client/server environment
  • System programming facilities
  • Communication facilities
  • Data management facilities
  • Recovery and restart
  • Data queuing
  • Operations.
  • Practical Work

    Use the CICS supplied transactions CEMT, CEDF, CECI and CEDA.

    Optional follow-on classes

    • CICS Application Programming 1 (CI17U)
    • CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Basic Tailoring (CI20U)
    • CICS Transaction Debugging for CICS TS for z/OS (CI22N4GB)
    • CICS TS for z/OS Problem Analysis (CI291AGB)