CICS/TS Application Debugging Workshop

    

Summary:
In this course, students will acquire the ability to locate the source of an abend, examine the operands involved and determine corrective action. The workshops supplied are using programs written in COBOL/LE; the dumps were created in a CICS/TS 2.3 environment.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & lab

Audience:
This course is designed for CICS application developers and designers, and technical support specialists.

Topics:

• Introduction CICS history
• Application Programming Interface
• CICS command-level translator; Addressability; Task execution; CECI; CEBR; CECS
• Error Handling
• HANDLE CONDITION; IGNORE CONDITION; NOHANDLE; RESP
• Testing
• Principles; Procedures; Requirements
• Task Execution
• Domain architecture
• CICS areas
• execution Diagnostic Facility
• Abnormal end processing
• Problem Investigation
• Dump facility; Messages and codes; Dump structure; CICS trace facility, COBOL/LE program structure
• Abend Analysis

Prerequisites:
Students should take CICS Application Programming and Advanced Application Programming Workshop courses, or have equivalent experience before taking this class.

Last Update: February 11, 2012