On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• describe the CICS architecture, Domain and table structure
• understand the functions of the Dispatcher Domain and the terms multi-tasking, multi-threading and the importance of the CICS TCBs
• generate and tailor a CICS system from the supplied jobstreams and describe the function of the CICS system files
• understand and control the CICS storage layout and the use of the various DSAs
• describe the Resource Definition On-Line and auto-installation facilities and define and install transactions, programs, program libraries, terminals and files.
• describe and define Transient Data and Temporary Storage queues
• generate the System Initialisation Table and describe the major parameters that control the region's structure, performance and security
• use the CICS Intersystem Communication facility to define connections between CICS regions by MRO, ISC and TCP/IP
• use the transaction CEMT to inquire and modify table entries
• understand the functions of the CECI transaction
• describe the functions of the CICS Explorer and Event Processing
• describe the facilities of CICS Web Services
• define recovery facilities for the Log Manager to deal with transaction abends and CICS system abends
• Implement the problem analysis functions of CICS dump and trace.

• CICS/TS Review
  • Introduction & Objectives
  • What is CICS?
  • A Resource Manager
  • CICS Tables
  • CICS Information Center
  • CICS organisation
  • Application Support
  • Application Services
  • CICS Domains
  • The Dispatcher Domain (DS)
  • CICS versions and releases
  • Main Tables
  • Creating the CICS datasets
• Architecture
  • Starting a transaction
  • Logging on
  • Message Input
  • Transaction validation
  • Program loading
  • Task execution
  • Program execution
  • Task Termination
  • Multi-tasking and multi-threading
  • The CICS Dispatcher
  • Multiple TCBs
• Table Generation
  • Resource Definition
  • Resource Definition macro
  • Using SIT parameters
  • RDO components
  • Generating Resource Definitions
  • The CICS System Definition file
  • The CICS Global Catalog DFHGCD
  • CSD definition
  • Resource Definition Groups
  • Group Lists
  • Resource commands
  • List commands
  • General commands
  • General Resource Definitions
  • Add
  • Remove
  • Append
  • Copy
  • Move
  • Rename
  • Display
  • Expand
  • Install
  • Single resource INSTALL
  • Check Group
  • DFHCSDUP: The CSD utility program, offline utility program
  • DFHCSD EXTRACT command
  • Accessing the CSD File from an application program
  • CREATing Resource Definitions
• CEMT and CECI Transactions
  • CEMT The Master Transaction
  • The Functions of CEMT
  • CEMT: Inquire Menu, CEMT Help
  • Syntax checking
  • Invoking CEMT from a console
  • CEMT Inquire System
  • CEMT Inquire Terminal
  • CEMT Inquire Task
  • Problem determination
  • Forcepurge
  • Purge
  • CEMT Inquire Program
  • CEMT Inquire File
  • Closed Attribute
  • CEMT Inquire TSQ
  • CEMT Inquire Tranclass
  • CEMT Inquire JModel
  • CEMT Inquire JOurnalname
  • CEMT Inquire UOW
  • CEMT SET
  • CEMT SET DUMPDS
  • CEMT P SHUT
  • CEMT P SHUT Immediate
  • CEMT P {DUMP|SNAP} [Title(Xxx)]
  • CEMT DISCARD options
  • The Command Interpreter CECI
  • Using CECI
  • Using Variables with CECI
  • Displaying Large Variables
  • Storing a command
• System Initialisation Table
  • SIT - introduction and objectives
  • CICS Initialisation
  • Assembling the SIT
  • SIT parameters
  • .1 Parameters that cannot be coded in the SIT
  • Supplied SIT DFHSIT6$
  • - CICS/TS 4.2
• Dispatching
  • Dispatcher Domain
  • Dispatcher
  • Maximum Task (MXT)
  • Transaction Class (TRANSCLASS)
  • CEDA View Tranclass
  • Group
  • Maxactive
  • Purgethresh (AKCC Abend)
  • Tranclass(name)
  • Task priority
  • Priority Age
  • Region Exit Interval (ICV)
  • Terminal Scan Delay (ICVTSD)
  • Runaway Task Timeout Interval (ICVR)
  • TCB modes
  • Open Transaction Environment
  • MAXOPENTCBS MAXJVMTCBS MAXSSLTCBS
  • FORCEQR={NO|YES}
  • SSLTCBS
  • OPENTCBS
  • DB2 OTE exploitation
  • Quasi-reentrant and threadsafe programs
  • TCB Switching
  • CICS TS 4.2 OTE enhancements
• Defining Transactions and Profiles
  • Transaction definition
  • CEDA define transaction
  • 1 The 'indoubt' Attributes
  • CEDA Define Profile
• Defining Programs, Mapsets and Libraries
  • CEDA Define Program
  • Mapset definition
  • Program Autoinstall
  • SIT parameters for Program Autoinstall
  • User-replaceable module COMMAREA
  • Program Autoinstall Models
  • Program Autoinstall Summary
  • Define Library
• Program List Table
  • Program List Table
  • DFHPLT Macro
  • 1 DFHPLT TYPE=INITIAL
  • DFHPLT TYPE=ENTRY
  • PROGRAM=DFHDELIM
  • PLTPI programs
  • PLTSD programs
• FILE and LSRPOOL Definition
  • File control terminology
  • File management
  • CEDA Define File
  • CEDA Define Lsrpool
  • 1 Number of Buffers for LSR and NSR
  • Number of Strings for LSR and NSR
  • LSRPOOL attributes
  • Data Tables
  • CICS Maintained Data Table (CMDT)
  • User Maintained Data Table (UMDT)
  • Coupling Facility Data Table (CFDT)
  • Defining Pools and Starting Servers
  • IXCMIAPU CFRM policy definition
  • VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS)
  • CEDA File Definition for RLS files
  • Read Integrity with RLS files
• Storage
  • The CICS Region
  • Read Only DSAs
  • CICS DSAs
  • Shared DSAs
  • User DSAs
  • DSA limits
  • Improved Storage Management
  • DSALIM
  • EDSALIM
  • MEMLIMIT
  • Short on Storage (SOS)
  • Specifying DSA Sizes in the SIT
  • Transaction Isolation
  • DSA extents
  • CEMT Inq system
  • Storage parameters
  • CEMT Inq DSAs
• Terminal and Typeterm Definition
  • Terminal Autoinstall
  • Autoinstall SIT parameters
  • CEDA Define Terminal
  • CEDA Define TYPETERM
• Intersystem Communications
  • VTAM
  • SIT parameters
  • MRO/ISC overview
  • An implementation
  • CEMT Inquire VTAM
  • Inter System Communication
  • Multi-Region Operation /EXCI
  • LU 6.2 / MRO connection parameters
  • Sessions parameters
  • CEMT Inquire Terminal Session
  • Inquire Connection
  • CEMT Inquire Modeset
  • External CICS Interface (EXCI)
  • TCPIP connections
  • TCPIP connection resources
  • CEDA Define IPCONN
  • IPCONN Mirror Life
  • IPCONN and TCPIPSERVICE
  • Connections as seen from both sides
• TCP/IP & Web Services
  • What is a Web Service?
  • Terminology
  • Service requesters and providers
  • A provider example
  • Overview of service provider
  • SOAP
  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
  • CICS Web Services Assistant
  • Resources for Web Services support
  • CICS Web Services resource definition
  • TCPIPSERVICE definition
  • URIMAP
  • URIMAP definition
  • URIMAP: - general options, - server options, - client options, - pipeline options, - Atom options, - JVMserver options
  • URIMAP validity matrix
  • PIPELINE definition
  • Web Services - define WEBSERVICE
  • Document templates
  • CEDA define DOCTEMPLATE
  • Securing Web Services
  • Sample analysers
  • SSL SIT parameters
  • Connection Security and SSL
  • The SSL Handshake
  • SSL encryption
  • SSL authentication
  • SSL SIT parameters
  • Configuring CICS to use SSL - DFH$RING
  • Final review of CICS Web Service
• CICS Explorer
  • Administrative interfaces to CICS
  • Objectives
  • Administrative interfaces
  • CICS Explorer introduction
  • How to get the CICS Explorer
  • Using the CICS Explorer in 'Single Server' mod
  • Setting up an SMSS
  • First start of CICS Explorer
  • Connecting to CICS
  • When connected to CICS
  • The CICS Explorer screen
• Event Processing
  • Event Processing
  • Event Processing support
  • Event Processing terminology
  • Event Processing architecture - an overview
  • Events - the big picture overview
  • CICS bundles
  • Resources for EVENTs
  • More resources for EVENTs
  • Yet more resources for EVENTs
  • What needs to be done to 'capture an event'
  • Terminology
  • What is a bundle?
  • More, what is a bundle?
  • What is a manifest?
• Transient Data
  • Transient Data overview
  • Transient Data SIT parameters
  • TD=({3|decimal_value}[,{ 3|decimal_value}])
  • TDINTRA={NOEMPTY|EMPTY}
  • Intrapartition Transient Data Queues
  • Extrapartition Transient Data Queues
  • Automatic Transaction Initiation (ATI)
  • CEDA Define TDQUEUE
  • Extrapartition parameters
  • Extrapartition queues
  • Intrapartition parameters
  • Indirect parameters
  • IBM-supplied TD Queues
• Temporary Storage
  • Temporary Storage overview
  • SIT parameters for Temporary Storage
  • Temporary Storage Coupling Facility Pool
  • CFRM policy
  • MAIN vs AUX vs CF Temporary Storage
  • CICS TSQs
  • TSMODEL attributes
  • Temporary Storage Browse Transaction (CEBR)
  • CEBR Help
  • CEBR commands
• Security
  • Security overview
  • Security SIT parameters
  • The sign-on transactions
  • CESN
  • CESL
  • Sign off transaction CESF
• Initiation and Termination
  • CICS datasets
  • CICS initial start
  • CICS cold start
  • CICS Normal Shutdown
  • CICS warm start
  • DFHRMUTL utility program
  • CICS EMERgency restart
• Log Manager Domain
  • CICS system log
  • Defining logstreams
  • Creating a logstream
  • Shunting
  • Log Manager
  • CICS autojournalling
  • CICS user journalling
  • Logging for multiple CICS Regions
  • Coupling Facility logging
  • IXCMIAPU utility
  • DASD-only logging
  • Log streams
  • SIT parameters for logging
  • Log Tail Trimming
  • Offloading
• CICS Problem Analysis
  • CICS Messages
  • Transactions useful in problem analysis
  • CSFE
  • CICS Dumps
  • Transaction Dumps
  • Transaction Dump utility DFHDUvrm
  • System Dumps
  • Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS)
  • CICS660 components
  • CICS tracing
  • CETR Transaction
  • Trace Utility Program
• Db2
  • CICS External Resource Management
  • Starting the CICS Db2 Attachment Facility
  • Db2 threads
  • Defining Db2 Resources
  • DB2CONN Resource
  • DB2ENTRY Resource
  • DB2TRANS Resource
• CICS-DBCTL
  • DBCTL introduction
  • Database Resource Adapter
  • DBCTL TCB support
  • DBCTL Virtual Storage requirements
  • Defining DBCTL to CICS
  • SIT parameters for DBCTL
  • RDO resources

Live instructor-led training, with plenty of opportunities for hands-on exercises and discussion.

The course combines formal theory sessions with a series of challenging and progressive exercises. Over the course of the week attendees are given the opportunity to build and operate an actual CICS/TS system from scratch.

This course is also available for exclusive one-company presentations and for live presentation over the Internet, via the Virtual Classroom Environment service.

Delivered as a live, interactive online training.

Basic CICS experience (at least equivalent with the contents of CICS concepts).

Those with responsibility for, or interest in, CICS administration.