Technical Training Specialists

CICS Curriculum

CICS Concepts

1 day

This lecture-only course presents an overview of CICS and its role in the data processing environment.

The target audience includes anyone requiring an understanding of the processes and terminology of CICS with no plans to code application programs.

CICS Command Level Coding

5 days

Using a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, this course teaches the design and development of transactions using command level CICS. The class is compliant with COBOL II, VS COBOL, and IBM COBOL.

The target audience includes application programmers with coding experience, but no prior understanding of CICS.

Advanced CICS

3 days

This course teaches how to code advanced CICS application commands in a COBOL program. The lectures cover menu-driven applications, paging transactions, on-line printing using the CICS/JES spool interface, field-level help, system information, automatic transaction initiation, and other advanced topics. Hands-on exercises reinforce the concepts.

The target audience includes experienced CICS programmers who develop complex CICS applications.

CICS for System Analysts

4 days

This course offers essential information required to build efficient and reliable CICS applications. Lectures introduce CICS features and tools. Seven case studies demonstrate various design approaches and class discussions offer ample time for questions.

The target audience includes CICS applications developers, system designers, project leaders, and non-programmers who work with CICS applications.

CICS Application Debugging Workshop

3 days

This course uses a combination of lecture and lab work to present an in-depth workshop on CICS application debugging. The dumps used during the exercises were created with COBOL/MVS programs.

The target audience includes CICS applications developers, designers, and technical support specialists.

CICS Program Debugging with Abend-Aid

1 day

This course combines lectures and hands-on exercises to explain the debugging process and introduce the Abend-Aid products.
Note: This course may be added to any of the CICS debugging courses.

The target audience includes COBOL programmers who use Abend-Aid tools to debug CICS programs.

CICS/TS Structure and Problem Analysis

5 days

This course offers a discussion of the various types of outages that affect CICS/TS normal execution and the tools available to resolve them. Class time is divided between lectures and problem solving exercises. Students are encouraged to bring system Dumps for classroom analysis.

The target audience includes CICS system programmers, CICS technical support specialists, and other experienced application programmers willing to learn CICS internal structures.

CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 Overview and Migration

4 days

This course includes a product overview of the changes found in CICS/TS and a discussion of implementation tips. It includes a review of the steps needed to migrate to CICS/TS and suggestions that will ease the migration of CICS/ESA regions to this platform.

The target audience includes anyone involved with the migration of applications to CICS/TS.

CICS/TS Web Server Implementation

4 1/2 days

Through a combination of lecture and workshop exercises, this course covers all the basics for implementing and using the CICS/Web Interface.

The target audience includes programmers, system programmers, and analysts responsible for implementing a CICS/WEB application.