CICS V5.3 Systems Tailoring and Administration
This course teaches CICS system programmers how to install, tailor, and administer CICS Transaction Server (TS) for z/OS. You learn to construct, run, and administer a CICS system. You tailor the system by configuring CICS to run applications, defining transactions, programs, files, web services, and other resources that CICS applications need. You administer CICS by using CICS transactions and the CICS Explorer.
Duration: 40-45hrs
Course Content:
- Course introduction
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS overview
- Installation and verification
- Exercise: Getting acquainted with CICS TS for z/OS
- Resource definition
- Exercise: Preparing and starting a CICS region
- Supporting terminal access
- Exercise: Administering terminals
- Defining transactions, programs, and map sets
- Exercise: Defining transactions, programs, and map sets
- File control functions and file definition
- Exercise: Defining files and LSR pools
- CICS queuing facilities
- Exercise: Defining transient data queues
- CICS intercommunication services
- Exercise: Connecting systems
- Administering application resources
- Storage management and storage protection
- System control
- Exercise: Administering with CICS Explorer
- Startup, recovery, and restart
- Exercise: Defining recoverable resources and journal models
- Accessing external resource manager data
- Basic problem determination
- Exercise: JSON web services, DB2 resources, and OTE
- Measurement and evaluation
- Security and the external security manager
- Exercise: Statistics, dumps, and security
- Sysplex support functions
- Course summa