CICS Transaction Server Training Program

CICS Transaction Server Training Programs

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SYS-ED’s CICS Transaction Server training program utilizes the full complement of training medium - traditional, web-based, and technology driven classrooms.

The standard CICS training program is 17 days, however, it can be tailored to specific training needs and operational objectives:

The client organization selects the modules which comprise the training program. In order to accommodate employee workloads and staff in remote geographic locations, component courses can be scheduled over non consecutive weeks utilizing a combination classroom training and distance-learning. At the client's discretion, validation assessment and a final examination can be utilized.

A CICS training program can be taught with a programming language other than COBOL: Assembler, PL/1 or FORTRAN. Next generation CICS software and development tools specific to a client's mainframe environment can be incorporated into a program such as: IBM Tools, InterTest, Xpediter, SDF-II, or BMS-GT.

Fast-track CICS courses are also available through the New York schedule.

CICS Transaction Server Training Program Modules

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 CICS Transaction Server Training Program - Traditional Classroom Training

Traditional Classroom Training


CICS Transaction Server Training Program - Blended Content Delivery

Blended Content Delivery

CICS TS: Fundamentals 2 days
VSAM for Programmers 3 days
CICS TS Command Level Programming 5 days
CICS TS Application Design 5 days
CICS: InterTest and ABEND-AID/FX 2 days

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The audience, duration, and content can be used as a starting point to augment an integrated training program or to evaluate a fast-track course.


Module: CICS TS: Fundamentals
Duration: 2 days
Description: This course presents the capabilities of on-line systems. Topics include: on-line system components, functions, operational procedures and facilities. The role and importance of CICS standards are also examined.
Audience: Application and system programmers
Prerequisites: None
Objectives:
  1. Become familiar with the facilities and interactions between the major components of a communications network.
  2. Recognize the functions performed by communications support software.
  3. Understand online application programming techniques.
  4. Learn the terminology associated with an online system environment.
  5. Recognize the role of security and backup and recovery in online systems.

Module: VSAM for Programmers
Duration: 3 days
Description: This course presents an overview of VSAM file structures and requirements for effective use with CICS/COBOL. VSAM is examined in its utilization online, batch, and through Access Method Services.
Audience: Systems and applications programmers who need to know VSAM and who write CICS COBOL programs that access VSAM datasets.
Prerequisites: COBOL experience
CICS TS: Fundamentals
Objectives:
  1. Become familiar with the structure of key-sequenced, entry-sequenced and relative record data sets.
  2. Learn VSAM terminology in order to understand file structure.
  3. Identify VSAM’s file design and processing techniques which optimize performance.
  4. Determine which Access Method Services are required to define, load, alter, backup, recover, delete, and review VSAM datasets.
  5. Write CICS/COBOL verbs to read, rewrite, delete, browse, and write VSAM records under CICS VSAM datasets for both online and batch programs.

Module: CICS TS: Command Level Programming
Duration: 5 days
Description: This course teaches CICS, concepts, functions, and commands required to code and maintain CICS programs.
Audience: Application programmers, system programmers, and analysts who code, execute and maintain application programs using CICS Command Level coding features.
Prerequisites: CICS TS: Fundamentals
VSAM for Programmers
Objectives:
  1. Become familiar with CICS facilities: terminal management, storage management, and CICS components.
  2. Understand how the COBOL compiler interacts with the CICS Command Translator to produce a CICS load table.
  3. Create a single screen map and code command parameters required for invoking online mapping operations.
  4. Code and execute application programs using CICS commands: program control, terminal control, and file control.
  5. Understand the concepts and theory serving as the foundation of transient data control and temporary storage control.
  6. Examine the execution of a transaction using InterTest and use it to test and debug functions.

Module: CICS TS: Application Design
Duration: 5 days
Description: This course prepares the student to design applications that use CICS facilities and which will operate efficiently in a z/OS environment.
Audience: Applications and systems programmers who design CICS applications or who maintain on-line systems.
Prerequisites: CICS TS: Command Level Programming
Objectives:
  1. Understand the functions of each CICS facility.
  2. Choose those CICS features that are appropriate to the systems requirements of an application.
  3. Understand established CICS design policies.
  4. Select the appropriate method for initiating a task, page building, logging and passing data from one task to another.
  5. Identify potential problem areas in CICS application design.
  6. Identify areas of possible competition for CICS resources.
  7. Understand transaction affinity and storage isolation and assess its impact on application design.
  8. Become familiar with CICS intercommunication, Distributed Program Link, Distributed Transaction Processing (APPC), transaction routing and function shipping.

Module: CICS InterTest and ABEND-AID/FX
Duration: 2 days
Description: The course teaches how to modify program variables and test data used by the variables. There also is an introduction to CICS transaction dump analysis using ABEND-AID/FX, the interactive dump analysis tool.
Audience: Entry-level programmers
Prerequisites: CICS TS: Command Level Programming
Objectives:
  1. Become proficient with InterTest functions.
  2. Identify faster more effective CICS testing techniques using InterTest.
  3. Use InterTest utility transactions.
  4. Use InterTest for debugging CICS transactions.
  5. Appreciate the transaction dump analysis facilities of ABEND-AD/FX.
  6. Use ABEND-AID/FX to solve common transaction dumps.

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