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PT27345
Summary
The “CICS for System Programmers” is geared towards technical staff new to the CICS environment. In this course, the participant will learn how a CICS system is put together: resource definitions, system utilities both online and offline, System Initialization tables, CICS JCL, system datasets are subjects covered in depth in this course. We also discuss CICS storage management, CICS communications and CICS customization. At the end of this class, the attendee will have been exposed to almost everything that goes on in a CICS address space. The material is current to CICS TS V5.2.
Prerequisites
The student should have some knowledge of TSO/ISPF will help during some exercises; the student will be preparing and submitting a CICS address space from scratch so some JCL expertise will most definitely be an asset. Although not essential, some programming experience will be helpful to successfully complete the debugging exercises.
Duration
5 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
This course was designed for people who will be new to CICS system administration. It will also be profitable for anyone who will have to define and/or support CICS systems
Topics
- CICS Overview
- CICS System Preparation
- Resource Definition
- Defining Resource Managers to CICS
- CICS Communication
- CICS Storage
- Online Tools
- CICS Offline Utilities
- Special Customization
- CICS Security