Course Description
4 to 6 hours
Personnel who use or monitor a CICS system and require knowledge of how a CICS Transaction Server System works
Knowledge of operating and network systems
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
• Define CICS
• Identify what CICS does
• Recognize some of the control structures that govern CICS behavior
• Identify how data is transferred and how the components of a CICS system work
• Differentiate between tasks, programs, and transactions
• Recognize CICS commands to start, stop, monitor, and control a CICS system
• Recognize the elements of CICS displays
What It Is
What It Does
Where It Runs
Possible Interfaces
Tasks and Transactions
ACID Transactions
CICS Implementation of Transactions
CICS Functional Components
Control Units
The CSD
Control Tables
Control Blocks
Intercommunication between Systems
Multi-Region Operation (MRO)
Inter-System Communication (ISC)
CICS Supplied Transactions
Using CEMT to Facilitate Shutdown
Inquire Command
Perform Command
Setting Programs, Nodes, Terminals, Data Sets
Displaying Data Sets, Displaying Programs
Displaying Terminals, Displaying Tasks
Displaying Transactions
