In this course, you learn how to design, code, and debug command-level CICS application programs for e-business or traditional environments. The course applies to the entire family of CICS products.
Thanks to this formation you will be able to:
– Design and develop application programs for CICS environments
– Design applications with separate presentation and business logics
– Describe the purpose of the CICS Clients
– Code CICS commands
– Pass and receive control between program modules
– Describe and compare the CICS COMMAREA and the CICS channel and container interface
– Prepare programs and run tests, including problem determination and resolution, by using messages and online interactive debugging tools
– Access and modify Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files, DB2 databases, temporary storage, and transient data queues
– Respond to normal and exception conditions from CICS commands
– Send and receive basic mapping support (BMS) maps

Public :

This intermediate course is designed for application developers and analysts who design, code, and debug CICS command level applications.

Prérequis :

You should have:
– Working knowledge of the underlying operating system platforms
– Basic knowledge of CICS fundamentals

– COBOL or PL/I application development skills
– Basic knowledge of application design and programming

Course introduction
CICS application programming environment
Designing CICS applications
Exercise: Introducing Worldwide Books Online
CICS command overview
Exercise: Using CICS Explorer
Exercise: Writing a pseudoconversational echo program
Debugging CICS applications
Exercise: Debugging applications by using CEDF
CICS basic mapping support
Exercise: Writing the WB presentation program
CICS program-to-program control
Exercise: Completing the WB presentation program
Exercise: Linking to a CICS program from outside CICS
CICS data access
Exercise: Completing the WB customer program
CICS queues
Exercise: Completing the WB order program
Exercise: Enhancing the WB application (optional)
CICS front-end programming
Service flow and event processing
CICS web applications
CICS Business Transaction Services
Course summary