CICS Training
Introduction
Fast Track CICS Training being conducted by Swift Brains, Noida
Training Duration: 15 Days.
Cost: Rs 12,000/- only
Trainer: 8 Years experience in CICS design and development in an MNC.
Details: Classes in Morning and Evening to felicitate working professionals. Weekend batches also available.
Actual CICS environment for working. Extra time for lab work.
Audience
The course is aimed at Mainframe developers and trainees who have know how of COBOL, JCL and DB2 and now want to add CICS into their armory. The course contains many practical exercises to ensure familiarity with the CICS development process.
Pre-requisites
The candidate should have good command on COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM on IBM Mainframes
Course Objectives
Whilst covering the basics of CICS, this course aims to giving the developers a know how of how to develop CICS programs, how to debug them and how to crack interviews. On completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Write a CICS program from scratch
- Understand how to define and develop MAPS
- Debug CICS programs
- Provide production support for CICS environment
- Read and comprehendlegacy code
Course Outline
- Review of CICS basics
- CICS as an online system
- Facilities and Features
- On-Line versus Batch Processing
- Multi-Tasking
- Dynamic Storage Allocation
- The CICS transaction concept
- System Programs
- System Tables
- Application Programs
- Mapsets
- Terminal Control
- Program Control
- File Control
- Basic Mapping Support
- Temporary Storage
- Transient Data
- Interval Control
- Journal Control
- Task Control
- Storage Control
- Debugging Aids
- Two-tier architecture
- CICS tasks and services
- EXEC INTERFACE BLOCK Concept and Usage
- Using a COMMAREA
- Pseudo conversational design
- Command syntax
- SIGNON and SIGNOFF
- Program preparation
- Coding
- Supported Languages
- Translator
- Basic CICS commands
- SEND and RECEIVE
- Exception handling
- HANDLE CONDITION
- IGNORE CONDITION
- NOHANDLE and RESP commands
- Scroll CEDF displays
- Overtype argument values and response codes on CEDF displays
- Display the task’s working storage
- Display the storage at any address
- Display the EXEC Interface Block
- Display previously traced commands
- Continue CEDF with pseudo conversational transactions
- Request a task ABEND from CEDF
- Code user trace entry points
- Invoke CEDF in two-terminal mode
- Using CECI
- Map preparation and usage
- How to create a BMS Mapset
- Physical and Symbolic Map
- How to design user-friendly screens
- How attributes control the look and operation of a field
- How to code BMS macros
- The BMS mapset and symbolic map for the customer maintenance program
- How to assemble a BMS mapset
- Addressing map data areas
- SEND and RECEIVE MAP commands
- Extended attributes
- Cursor positioning
- Dynamic Attribute Character Assignments
- Start
- Retrieve
- Cancel
- Suspend
- LINK with COMMAREA
- XCTL with COMMAREA
- The COBOL CALL
- STARTing a new transaction
- Pseudo Conversational Techniques
- Data declarations to reference records and rows
- Accessing VSAM Files ESDS , KSDS etc.
- Reading single records and rows
- Reading sets of records and rows
- Adding, deleting, and modifying records and rows
- Integrity considerations
- CICS transient data queues
- Intra and Extra Partition Data Sets
- Features of TDQ
- Automatic Task Initiation
- CICS temporary storage queues
- CICS with DB2
- How to access DB2 from CICS region
Course Duration
15 days (2 hours everyday)
Course Fee
INR 12000.00
