In spite of all the technical differences of the various members in the CICS family there is a common foundation that allows to create portable applications - the CICS API (Application Programming Interface). This application programming interface, though, makes it necessary to design the online applications in a vastly different way than it would be done in a batch environment. Finally, certain functions and facilities are available in CICS which are not provided in any other programming environment. The requirements and restrictions and the functions and facilities of online programming for CICS are the topics of the newly created course

CICS Application Programming: Introduction and Workshop

Participants:

This course is intended for application programmers with little or no experience in CICS.

Prerequisites:

The participants should have some knowledge in application programming with COBOL, PL/I, C/370 or Assembler. The class will be useful for any environment that supports CICS applications, regardless of the operating system in use. Some knowledge of CICS, such as provided by the course C001E "CICS Introduction: Concepts and Facilities: ".

Objectives:

At completion of the course the participants will know all the commercially useable EXEC CICS commands and will be able to use them in their own applications. They will know the difference of conversational and pseudo-conversational programming and will be able to create both types of programs.

Method:

Classroom lectures in English language

Programming exercises at the terminal

Duration:

5 Days