| WA1269 CICS/TS Structure and Problem Analysis Training |
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This course covers the internal structure of CICS/TS and basic debugging skills. Course to cover CICS/ESA V4.1 is still available on request.
Hands on labs are used in learning how to use CICS transaction dumps, system dumps with IPCS and traces in problem determination tasks. |
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| Topics |
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- CICS/TS Architecture Review
- CICS/TS Externals:
- Message formats, Destinations and Processing
- CICS abend codes
- CICS/TS Internals
- CICS Domains
- Control Blocks
- CICS Storage Control
- CICS/TS Dumps and Traces
- Transaction Dumps
- System Dumps
- IPCS dump formatting
- Traces
- Problem Investigation
- Classifying the problem
- Transaction/system abend types
- Investigating waits and loops
- Storage violations
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| What you will learn |
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After completing this course, the student should be able to:
- Understand the new CICS/TS facilities
- Understand how the new facilities can be used to enhance/modernize the legacy applications
- Understand how to access CICS applications from other subsystems
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| Audience |
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End users, managers, system architects, application programmers and analysts that need to understand the impact and the potential benefits of the new functions in Transaction Server. |
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| Prerequisites |
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Basic understanding of CICS/ESA V4.1 application programming issues.
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| Duration |
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Four and half days. |
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