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CICS Training by SYS-ED
SYS-ED's hands-on CICS Transaction Server training provides the framework for learning how to code, debug, and web enable CICS programs. When information technology professionals complete a SYS-ED CICS course, they have the documentation, training aids, skeleton programs, and supervised hands-on experience to code and debug CICS programs. Case and point, if your organization outsourced its CICS coding and program maintenance to consulting companies in the 1980’s, it more than likely was SYS-ED which trained many of the consultants who did the actual design and coding!

Our CICS trainers include a unique collection of mainframe technologists and text book authors: Victoria Albanese, Linda Bliden, Robert Blumfeld, Jonathan Clarke, Michael Haupt, Pacifico Lim, Karen Schwartz, and David Silverberg. Their application design, sample programs, and exercises served as a foundation for quality CICS training. SYS-ED's CICS lesson plans, courseware, and training aids are highly respected in increasingly hybrid and interrelated information technology. They reflect the insights and guidance created by experienced systems consultants with a mastery of the CICS architecture and cross system expertise with IBM z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM, and open source UNIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems.

There are few software or consulting companies, which know CICS and teach CICS courses better than SYS-ED. Our collective expertise in CICS application design, coding, debugging, and systems programming spans the onset of the modern era of data processing and provides the been there done that experience to teach the IBM mainframe systems software skillset to a new generation of IT personnel. We worked on several sizable first generation CICS projects, when the source code and program logic was available; it no longer is. This knowledge provides us with a unique insight to explain and draw diagrams which teach why the software works or in some case doesn’t work as it should. That is why IBM, Fortune 1000 / multinational companies, government municipalities, and healthcare providers have used SYS-ED instructors to teach their current generation of software developers.

Qualifying a Training Assignment
SYS-ED will not accept a CICS Transaction Server training assignment without a consultation with the prospective client organization. We review the background of the employees to be trained, operating environment, documented standards, and project specifications and use that information to select the code snippets, examples, skeleton programs, and hands-on exercises. We then prepare a training strategy: lesson plan, modular courseware, training aids, and validation assessment. The pre course consultation allow us to identify and differentiate between teaching an industry standard course as compared to the client’s true need for educational consultancy: 1- application maintenance 2- evaluation for migration to IBM or third party SOA: Service Oriented Architecture standards 3- application repurposing with Rational Developer for System z 4- WINTEL or UNIX platform migration based upon the Oracle Roadmap standards to WebLogic Server and Tuxedo or 5- application migration. And when are not confident that we can provide a superior training outcome, will politely turn down an assignment.

As part of presenting an instructor-led CICS Transaction Server course at the client location, courseware is evaluated and organized for subsequent use in a web-based infrastructure and delivery medium. This service is provided free of charge.

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Courseware for Teaching

The typical comments were:
 

1.	That it is extremely difficult to find CICS training which develops the specialized skills needed for application development and maintenance tasks.
2.	That there is a scarcity of fast-track CICS courses, 5 or fewer days in duration, geared to Fortune 1000 corporations and their employees.
3.	That a high percentage of CICS courses are cancelled.
4.	That travel costs and living expenses in a majority of situations are a significant constraint when it comes to attending a CICS course.
5.	That it is important to have a resource for asking CICS questions once the CICS training is complete.

Portfolio of CICS Clients

In response to these questions:

	Yes, SYS-ED offers multiple levels of CICS training: fundamentals, application design, programming, web enablement, and performance and tuning.
	Yes, since 1980, SYS-ED has provided fast-track CICS courses, tailored CICS training programs, and CICS educational consultancy.
	Yes, we have the flexibility and resources to conduct personalized training for small groups. We very rarely cancel CICS courses.
	CICS courses are available in multiple formats: classroom, distance-learning and blended web-based delivery.
	Upon completion of a SYS-ED course, our staff is available to answer CICS questions.

Technology Driven IT Training

SYS-ED is source software company independent. If we can not warranty a superior training outcome, we will politely turn down an assignment.

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• how to implement CICS design and coding techniques.
• factors which effect locking.
• identifying system parameters which impact on application performance.
• how to design a system which takes into account tradeoffs in performance.
• WebSphere facilities and how they can be used in a CICS system.

• the functions of CWS: CICS WEB SUPPORT and its components.
• how to develop web aware applications using CWS API commands.
• deployment of CICS applications on the web.
• using FORM to parse incoming data.
• how to use incoming HTTP request Information.
• how to build HTTP responses.
• modifying existing 3270-based applications for running under the 3270 Bridge.
• specifying the Resource Definition On-line definitions required by the CWS.
• enabling CICS for delivering media types - PDF and XML.
• coding other web components including JavaScript and HTML.

• developing measurement and evaluation plans for monitoring a CICS system.
• techniques for measuring and tuning a CICS system.
• methods for minimizing resource consumption.
• how to obtain information about CICS resource utilization.
• how to capture task activity.
• identifying resource contention and using tuning parameters for managing contention.

• Review the CICS learning paths.
• Read the technology assessments and CFAQs - course frequently asked questions.
• Examine the content in our CICS courseware and training aids.
• Utilize our CICS skillset assessments.
• Interview our systems consultant/instructor.

SYS-ED has been conducting courses in the public domain since 1980; however, there have been changes in the laws and regulations governing computer training in the state of New York. The schedule on our websites reflects a projected time frame for licensure with the New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision and submission and approval of curriculum. It will be updated quarterly.

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CICS Transaction Server Training Program - News for Immediate Release

Industry leading software and consulting companies utilize SYS-ED in conjunction with distance-learning for specialized z/OS mainframe training requirements - CICS, programming languages, utilities and development tools, and web enablement training.

Indications are that application server space is not going to be exclusively J2EE or .NET. CICS Transaction Server will account for a substantial share of overall application server market share. This CICS Transaction Server training program will highlight the new features of CICS Transaction Server.

IT personnel will need to learn new skills for the IBM mainframe environment in order to implement the next generation of system software; CICS Transaction Server in conjunction with IBM WebSphere MQ middleware, WebSphere Application Server, Rational technology and other proprietary software - Oracle WebLogic, and Microsoft .NET. In general, these skills will be both a new and better way of doing something that they knew how to do before. Training will cut across generations. Some very experienced people will be learning CICS and web enablement technologies; while the next generation of IT staff may well be using ISPF, JCL, and “tried and tested” mainframe programming languages, such as COBOL for the first time.

Training plans based upon the utilization of different training techniques have been chosen for suitability to the subject matter and audience as well as scheduling and class size requirements. The following methods will be used for introductory material for IT personnel, most operator training, and programmer training on selected topics.

• Distance-learning will be used for introductory training for personnel, most operator training, and programmer training on selected subjects.
• SYS-ED in New York will be used for their 3-day VSAM for Programmers, 4-day CICS Transaction Server: Application Design, 5-day CICS Transaction Server: Command Level Programming, and 4-day CICS Transaction Server Web Enablement.
• IBM will be used for specialized systems programmer training.

The plan is to have the entire IT staff, webmasters, operations, and programmers, attend the distance-learning and then have the project development teams take SYS-ED’s hands-on instructor-led courses. The WebSphere MQ courses and system programmer training will be attended by the project leaders and personnel who will required for managing these areas. The exact schedule will depend on the other workloads of staff members.

Evolving IT: Interrelated Technologies

It is clear that IBM is developing CICS in order for the mainframe to be the "SOA hub" in data centers for new and larger workloads. SYS-ED system consultants and CETi Technology Partners are experienced with the implementation of SOA and the expedient management of components in memory.  As mainframe shops expand their channel capability, there clearly will be a greater incentive to develop and utilize SOA.

Select a CICS Course.

Invoking the "CICS Course" title will provide the duration, intended audience, and content for the course. Invoking a "Skillset and System Software" category will provide courses that will be useful for functioning efficiently as a CICS application developer in a IBM mainframe environment. Invoking a "Language and Development Platform" will provide the programming language courses for that category or a SYS-ED website with more comprehensive information.
Application Development
CICS Transaction Server Fundamentals	CICS TS Administration and Tailoring
CICS TS Command Level Programming	CICS TS Performance and Tuning
CICS TS Command Level Programming - Adv	CICS TS Recovery and Restart
CICS TS Application Design	CICS TS for Operators
CICS Web Enablement	Utilities and Development Tools
CICS TS Web Enablement: Introduction	CICS TS Debugging with CA-InterTest
CICS TS Web Support Programming	CICS TS SDF-II
CICS TS Transaction Server Web Enablement
Skillset and System Software	Language and Development Platform
Programming Skills	Programming Languages
Utilities and Development Tools	COBOL
VSAM	Java
	MS.NET

Footnote 1:

SYS-ED’s core CICS curriculum have been submitted to the New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision for technical review and licensing.