This course combines lectures and workshops to teach student techniques of writing on-line application programs in the mainframe CICS/TS environment. The principal CICS facilities covered are Task Control, Program Control, Terminal control, File control, Temporary Storage and design structure. Students also learn the techniques of pseudo-conversational programming and prevention of task abends. This course is hands-on and workshop oriented.

This coursed is appropriate for the programmers new to CICS development as well as those desiring an introduction to on-line processing concepts and commands.

• CICS Concepts
• Exception Processing
• Terminal Communications
• Basic Mapping Support
• Map Commands
• Program Control Commands
• Data File Operations
• Temporary Storage
• Interval Control
• CICS Supplied Transactions

• Use the tools needed to code and maintain CICS/TS programs
• Discuss the concepts of on-line processing through CICS/TS
• Use pseudo-conversational programming, COMMAREA, and Modified Data Tags
• Discuss Program Control Design, LINKs, and XCTL to other program/systems
• Work with Basic Mapping Support (BMS)
• Use the file operations features in CICS
• Discuss structured programming concepts and techniques in CICS/TS
• Discuss good examples of CICS/TS programs

A working knowledge of Cobol II, PL/1 or Assembler is needed.

Public class : 2,025 Private class: 16,000.00 updated 12/2010