CICS Command Level Coding

Course Number:  691-JK
Recommended Duration:  5 days

Intended Audience
Programmers, and analysts who will design and code programs using Command Level CICS.

Course Overview
This course provides participants with a hands-on opportunity to learn how CICS works, and how to code effective CICS programs

Objectives
Students completing this course can be immediately productive as CICS programmers.

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.

Topics

• 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