CICS V5 Fundamentals WM851G

This basic course is designed for IT personnel who have little or no CICS experience.

• Describe the role of CICS in a business transaction environment
• Outline the flow of a typical CICS transaction
• Describe the functions that the primary CICS-supplied transactions perform
• Use the CICS master terminal transaction (CEMT) to query and control system resources
• Describe various ways of defining resources in CICS
• Use transactions that CICS supplies to define and manage resources
• Explain how CICS stores and manages resource definitions
• Describe the features of the CICS Explorer
• List the facilities that CICSPlex System Manager provides
• Describe how CICS implements security
• List the recoverable resources of CICS
• Describe CICS transaction backout and forward recovery
• List the types of CICS startup and shutdown
• Describe the facilities that CICS provides for maintaining the integrity of data that is associated with CICS programs
• Describe CICS support for databases and Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files
• Describe the functions of presentation, business, and data access logic
• Define the role and use of the COMMAREAs and CHANNELs in CICS applications
• Show how CICS Basic Mapping Support (BMS) supports the 3270 display
• Describe the syntax of a CICS command
• Explain how to handle exceptions
• Use the transactions that CICS supplies for testing and debugging
• Describe the facilities that are available in CICS for intercommunication

You should have a basic knowledge of data processing and an IBM operating system.

Some programming experience in a high-level language like COBOL or Java is helpful.

• Describe the role of CICS in a business transaction environment
• Outline the flow of a typical CICS transaction
• Describe the functions that the primary CICS-supplied transactions perform
• Use the CICS master terminal transaction (CEMT) to query and control system resources
• Describe various ways of defining resources in CICS
• Use transactions that CICS supplies to define and manage resources
• Explain how CICS stores and manages resource definitions
• Describe the features of the CICS Explorer
• List the facilities that CICSPlex System Manager provides
• Describe how CICS implements security
• List the recoverable resources of CICS
• Describe CICS transaction backout and forward recovery
• List the types of CICS startup and shutdown
• Describe the facilities that CICS provides for maintaining the integrity of data that is associated with CICS programs
• Describe CICS support for databases and Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files
• Describe the functions of presentation, business, and data access logic
• Define the role and use of the COMMAREAs and CHANNELs in CICS applications
• Show how CICS Basic Mapping Support (BMS) supports the 3270 display
• Describe the syntax of a CICS command
• Explain how to handle exceptions
• Use the transactions that CICS supplies for testing and debugging
• Describe the facilities that are available in CICS for intercommunication