In this course, you learn how to design, code, and debug command-level CICS application programs for e-business or traditional environments. The course applies to the entire family of CICS products.

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• Design and develop application programs for CICS environments
• Design applications with separate presentation and business logics
• Describe the purpose of the CICS Clients
• Code CICS commands
• Pass and receive control between program modules
• Describe and compare the CICS COMMAREA and the CICS channel and container interface
• Prepare programs and run tests, including problem determination and resolution, by using messages and online interactive debugging tools
• Access and modify Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files, DB2 databases, temporary storage, and transient data queues
• Respond to normal and exception conditions from CICS commands
• Send and receive basic mapping support (BMS) maps

This intermediate course is designed for application developers and analysts who design, code, and debug CICS command level applications.

You should have:

• Working knowledge of the underlying operating system platforms
• Basic knowledge of CICS fundamentals as taught in CICS V5 Fundamentals (WM851G)
• COBOL or PL/I application development skills
• Basic knowledge of application design and programming

• Course introduction
• CICS application programming environment
• Designing CICS applications
• Exercise: Introducing Worldwide Books Online
• CICS command overview
• Exercise: Using CICS Explorer
• Exercise: Writing a pseudoconversational echo program
• Debugging CICS applications
• Exercise: Debugging applications by using CEDF
• CICS basic mapping support
• Exercise: Writing the WB presentation program
• CICS program-to-program control
• Exercise: Completing the WB presentation program
• Exercise: Linking to a CICS program from outside CICS
• CICS data access
• Exercise: Completing the WB customer program
• CICS queues
• Exercise: Completing the WB order program
• Exercise: Enhancing the WB application (optional)
• CICS front-end programming
• Service flow and event processing
• CICS web applications
• CICS Business Transaction Services
• Course summary