CICS Concepts & Facilities [CA]

This 3-day hands on course introduces and explains CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) to those who have limited or no knowledge of CICS but who need a clear understanding of what CICS is, what it does and how it does it. This class is an introduction to the main concepts and facilities and the growing family of CICS server and client products that are available. This beginning class forms a solid foundation on all future education in CICS. 

3 Days

Hands-on

$1,995

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• Introduction  
• CICS Communication 
• CICS Facilities and Organization 
• Startup & Shutdown 
• EXEC Interface 
• Access to CICS
• WEB Services 
• CEMT and more 
• CICSPlex System Manager (CPSM)

• Describe the basic concepts, facilities, and terminology of CICS.  
• Describe the CICS functions available for program development.  
• Explain the role of CICS in a distributed environment.  
• Describe the concepts of CICS.  
• Identify the major management modules and tables.  
• Trace & Describe the flow of a CICS transaction.  
• Identify the CICS facilities used for accessing data. 
• Identify and use the CICS-supplied transactions, such as CEMT, CEDA, CECI, CEBR, and CEDF. 
• Identify and use the CICS Explorer to perform CEMT and CEDA-type functions 

A basic knowledge of IT. 

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This two-day workshop introduces, explains the new functionality & enhancements available with CICS TS Explorer. The course will provide attendees with the ability to install, customize, operate the CICS Explorer & associated plug-ins. The resources needed to connect to a single CICS and/or a CICSPlex will be discussed. The CICS functions provided by the explorer will be examined. The purpose and use of the varied perspectives will be covered.  The creation & deployment of BUNDLEs is examined. The topics are backed up by extensive hand’s-on exercises.

2 Days

Hands - On

Private-Only Inquire

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• CICS TS Explorer - an Introduction
• CICS TS Explorer – CICS resource Operation
• CICS TS Explorer – CICS resource Administration
• CICS TS Explorer - Customization
• Plug-ins available for the explorer 

• Describe & exploit the CICS Explorer 
• Install & customize the CICS Explorer 
• Provide the needed definitions in CICS to allow the explorer to connect 
• Use the CICS Explorer to perform CICS resource operational (CEMT type) functions & perform CICS resource administrative (RDO – CEDA type) functions  
• Describe & use the perspectives in the CICS Explorer 
• Customize perspectives to your needs.
• Customize views to your needs 
• Describe the “Event Binding Editor” 

Attendees should be experienced CICS personnel

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This course will teach a Programmer on how to debug an CICS Transaction dumps.  The presentation in includes the theory and practical analysis of transaction and system dumps. This workshop material is at a Enterprise COBOL V6.  

4 Days

Hands-On

$2695

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Introduction to CICS Transaction Dumps  

• Understanding Data/Protection Exceptions · 0C4 and 0C7 Program checks 
• Analyzing the dump information · Exec Interface Block, Transaction Abnormal Condition Block,  The Program Status Word &  The General Purposes Registers 
• CICS Internal Design

CICS Transaction Dumps  & CICS System Dumps

• Setting CICS Dumping options
• Specifying the CICS System Dump and Transaction Dump table
• Printing Transaction Dumps 
• Understanding the Transaction Dump Utility
• Debugging a Program Check – Mainline ,  Using the Cobol Programming Listing,  Understanding the PPAs (Program Prolog Areas) and how to use them &  Understanding the new COBOL Static Map
• The CEEDUMP 

Introduction in Program Debugging

• Debugging a Program Check – Cobol Subroutine,  Understanding Save Areas &  Using AMBLIST utility to determine the structure of the Load Module

Program Debugging

• Debugging a Program Check – Exec CICS Link, Understanding the PESA (Program Environment Save Area)
• Understanding the step by step methodology of Debugging
• CICS Tracing Facilities
• Controlling the Trace – CETR
• Printing Abbreviated and Extended Trace
• Setting Trace options
• Printing the Trace with the Trace utility
• Finding any EXEC CICS command in the COBOL source from the Trace table
•  Debugging a Program Loop · Using Exec CICS Enter Tracenum 
• Understanding CICS Abend codes
• Debugging using CICS Execution Diagnostic Facility
• Using CEDF to solve the Program Check while the transaction is still abending 

• Enterprise COBOL V6 have dramatically changed 
• How COBOL defines and locates its Working Storage and Linkage Sections 
• The traditional methods of locating these areas via the Task Global Table are gone 
• The TGT has been removed 
• COBOL has introduced new areas called the PPAs (Program Prolog Areas). There are 4 of them
• There is a new Static Map that has also been created 
• The new COBOL Compiler listing V6 is fully explained  
• This CICS/TS Transaction Debugging course explains how to find these storage areas and these new COBOL structures within a CICS transaction dump 
• Confidently debug transactions dumps, to be more self-sufficient with application problems
• Understand the methodologies of dump solving 
• Given a road-map of problem solving and taken through a number of transaction dumps 
• Data Exceptions and Protections Exception are fully covered, as is a LINK and COBOL Call   
• Understand the important of CICS Control Blocks – EIB, PESA, TCA and the Trace table 
• Describe how to use the Program Status Word and the General Purpose Registers to assist in debugging

No prior experience of programming is necessary , but  prior experience coding CICS application programs or attendance in the CICS Application Programming Workshop [CAPW]  would be an advantage

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