| WA1266 CICS/TS Application Programming Training |
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Learn the fundamentals of designing and developing business applications using the CICS/TS API. This course is a thorough instructor lead lecture with application programming lab exercises designed to understand the basic CICS/TS facilities, to learn the EXEC CICS call structure and to perform basic problem determination. |
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| Topics |
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- CICS/TS Concepts and Facilities
- Program Control Levels; Exceptional Conditions.
- Screen Handling:
- Terminal control; BMS; Screen definition;
- Logical map modes; Attribute bytes; BMSGEN;
- BMS at execution time; BMS conditions.
- The Execution Diagnostic Facility – CEDF / CEDX
- File Control commands
- VSAM Design Review
- Accessing Temporary Storage Queues
- Accessing Transient Data Queues
- Interval Control (IC)
- CICS/TS Operations
- Starting CICS region (COLD/EMERGENCY/…)
- Shut down processing of CICS (Normal, Immediate,..)
- Program Error /Abend handling
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| What you will learn |
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After completing this course, the student should be able to:
- Understand the CICS/TS facilities
- Perform basic EXEXC CICS calls
- Understand Basic Mapping Support and screen design options
- Use the CICS Transient Data and Temporary Storage queues
- Perform simple customization and administration tasks
- Perform basic problem determination
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| Audience |
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Application developers responsible for developing and maintaining CICS command-level. |
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| Prerequisites |
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An Introduction to CICS/TS and a previous programming experience in the MVS |
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| Duration |
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Five days. |
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