CICS Command-Level Coding
- Recommended Duration:
- 5 Days
- Version
- CICS TS 2.3, course is suitable for earlier releases of CICS TS or CICS 1.4.
- Benefits
- This course provides participants with a hands-on opportunity to learn how CICS works, and how to code effective CICS programs. Students completing this course can be immediately productive as CICS programmers.
- Audience
- Programmers, and analysts who will design and code programs using Command Level CICS.
- Prerequisites
- Students should have 6 months experience designing and coding application programs in COBOL, PL/I, Java, or C; or have completed the "Structured COBOL Workshop" course within the last 12 months. Recent experience using ISPF/PDF (especially the text editor) and the ability to code JCL to run simple batch jobs is necessary to complete class assignments.
- Major Topics
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- CICS Command Level syntax
- 3270-type terminal and BMS maps
- BMS map processing commands
- Pseudo-conversational programming
- Editing, single record view/update
- Multiple record processing (browsing)
- Using VSAM I/O commands and data
- Debugging with CEDF, CEDX, CEBR, CEMT, CECI, and CMAC
- Passing control and data
- Temporary Storage Queues
- Transient Data Queues
- CICS Dumps and Trace Tables
- Exercises
- There are eight machine exercises and one paper exercise. VSAM I/O exercises may be replaced with SQL if students have DB2 background.