CICS Technical Design

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• design and specify efficient CICS business transaction systems
• implement the features relevant to efficient business application systems
• implement Recovery/Restart.

Who Should Attend
Systems Designers; Systems Analysts and Analyst Programmers.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of systems analysis techniques.
Duration
4 days
Course Code
CTD
Contents
Concepts and facilities
CICS Mode of Operation; Management Structure; Transaction processing.


Design requirements
Personnrel involvement; Functional breakdown; Resource Utilisation considerations.


Network & screen
General Hardware planning; 3270 Characteristics & Data


Screen design
Data Streams; Terminal Control; Basic Mapping Support; CUA Standards


Web enablement
Designing for the web.


Transaction & program
Task initiation; multiple use of programs; Conversational & Pseudo-Conversational dialogues; program logical levels; program control facilities.


File control
File design; File Control Table; file control functions; browse usage; backout and forward recovery; VSAM considerations; data integrity.


Temporary storage
Temporary Storage usage; queue processing options; recovery.


Startup & shutdown
CICS Initialisation options; post-initialisation phase; PLT options; shutdown options.


Recovery/restart
ENQs; system recovery concepts; abnormal task termination; transaction backout; SYNC points; recoverable resources; journals.


Transient data
Facilities and usage; extrapartition TD; Intrapartition TD; automatic task initiation.


System performance
Measurement tools; task controlling parameters.


CICS transactions
IBM supplied utility transactions and their uses.


An introduction to BTS
TS 1.3 included Business Transaction Services. This feature will be explained in overview.


Case study
Topic details are consolidated throughout the course, via an extensive case study. This allows students to formulate and present a sample CICS business application system.