Duration

5 days

Course Description

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.

The course also provides a thorough introduction to security and recovery concepts that are needed to administer new or existing installations of CICS TS. Topics include resource management, storage management, system control, task management, measurement and problem determination tools, intercommunication services, CICSPlex SM, Cloud, Liberty, DevOps, IBM UrbanCode Deploy, DB2, IBM MQ, DBCTL, and more. You practice your new skills on a z/OS system that is configured specifically for this lab-intensive course.

Audience

This course is designed for administrators of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS.

Prerequisites

Be familiar with CICS architecture and facilities, either through experience or by successfully completing course CICS V5.3 Fundamentals (WM806G)
Have a working knowledge of z/OS, JCL, and TSO/ISPF
Have a basic knowledge of z/OS Communications Server concepts
Have a basic knowledge of VSAM concepts and Access Method services

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Define and set up CICS regions
Analyze application descriptions, define resources, and customize
Define the major functions and parameters that are used to control CICS
Identify CICS procedures
Identify system control functions
Administer CICS resources with CICS transactions and the CICS Explorer
Define the functions of intercommunication services
Identify sources of information that is necessary to aid problem determination
Measure and evaluate information that is used to measure and tune the environment
Describe how the other MVS resource managers that IBM offers interface with CICS Transaction Server
Describe the choices for starting CICS programs and accessing CICS data from outside CICS
Describe how CICS uses z/OS Sysplex

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

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.