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CICS Systems Administration

Course:   CSA
Duration:   5 Days
Level:   II
On our website at:   http://www.verhoef-training.com/courses/CSA.html
 
Course Summary

This course is designed to help CICS System Administration personnel to understand CICS from initialization through to shutdown, including maintenance, performance and availability.

Topics Covered In This Course

INTRODUCTION

  • CICS Overview
  • CICS Connectivity to other systems
  • Terminology

COMPONENTS

  • Resource Definitions
    • Online
    • BATCH
    • CEDA
    • DFHCSDUP
  • Macro table generation
  • System Initialization Table
  • Data Sets

INITIALIZATION

  • Types
  • Steps during initialization
  • JCL and start up messages
  • CEMT (master Terminal)
  • PLT

STORAGE

  • Construction of the address space
  • Dynamic Storage Areas
  • Subsystem storage protection/Transaction isolation
  • Command Protection
  • Storage Violations
  • Short on Storage
  • Dynamic storage maintenance

SUPPLIED TRANSACTIONS

  • CEMT
  • CEBR
  • CECI
  • CEDA
  • CMAC
  • CETR

TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT PARAMETERS THAT MANAGE TRANSACTIONS

  • MXT
  • TRANSCLASS
  • ICVR

TRANSACTION ATTACHING AND DISPATCHING

  • System vs. User transactions
  • Dispatching process (multiple TCB)
  • ICV
  • Transaction Definitions/ Autoinstall
  • Program/Map Definitions/Autoinstall
  • Attach flow

COMMUNICATIONS

  • 3270 Terminal definitions/autoinstall
  • Connections and Sessions
  • CICSPlex/Multi Region Option
  • SYSPLEX/WORKLOAD MANAGER

TYPES OF DATA

  • VSAM files
  • Local Shared Resources
  • Temporary Storage
  • Transient Data
  • System Log
  • Local and Global catalogs
  • User Journals
  • Data base -DB2, DBCTL

PROBLEM RESOLUTION

  • System Dumps -IPCS
  • Transaction Dumps
  • Trace
    • Internal
    • Auxiliary
    • GTF

SHUT DOWN

  • Types
  • PLTSD/XLT

STATISTICS

  • STAT transaction
  • SMF records
  • Summary and Detailed Statistics
What You Can Expect
Who Should Take This Course

Personnel responsible for CICS Administration experienced application programmers, system programmers, and managers.

Recommended Prerequisites

The participant should have CICS experience.

Training Style

This class is taught by lecture with hands-on workshops.

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Every student attending a Verhoef Training class will receive a certificate good for $100 toward their next public class taken within a year.

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