Advanced CICS Command Level Coding

Course Number: 692-JK
Recommended Duration: 4 days

Intended Audience: CICS programmers needing to enhance their skills with CICS.

Course Overview

This course provides participants with a hands-on opportunity to learn and practice advanced CICS programming techniques including the use of DB2. Emphasis is placed on efficient use of CICS. In addition, recent developments in CICS are covered to allow students who learned CICS under earlier releases to use the best coding techniques.

Prerequisites

The student entering this course should have 6 months recent experience programming in CICS or have completed the "CICS Command Level Coding" course within the last 12 months.

Topics

• Recent changes to CICS
• Performance factors
• Multiple Region Operation (MRO)
• File processing and browsing
• File/database integrity
• DB2 use
• Effective use of COMMAREA
• Temporary storage
• Reducing line transmissions & MDT
• Use of dynamic storage and SET
• Transfer techniques
• Transient data
• STARTed tasks CICS backup and recovery

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