CICS TS Overview

Overview
This course provides an overview of CICS, explaining the features that are available, and the way they should be implemented.
Course objectivesTo understand in principle the function of CICS and the services provided in order to relate them to your requirements.
By the end of this course you will have learnedConcepts of CICS; CICS facilities; IBM-supplied transactions.
Who should attendProgrammers, Administrators, Systems Designers, Operations Personnel and Managers.
Course synopsis

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  Introduction
  
  Basic concepts of a CICS system; CICS environments; types of application; transactions, programs and tasks
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  Facilities
  
  Security; data protection; data retrieval and update; message switching; response times; terminal handling
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  CICS programming
  
  Facilities and debugging aids available to the applications programmer when using CICS
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  Operational requirements
  
  System initialisation; system monitoring; master terminal function; messages and statistics; shutdown