Understanding CICS and Your Role

Company Name

Date - Time

CICS TS - Introduction

1 hour

1 hour

1 hour

PowerPoint Our CICS Applications and

Data

PowerPoint Our CICS Systems

WebinarUnderstanding CICS and Your

Role

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CICS TS and Transaction Processing Concepts

CICS Structure and Intercommunication

CICS Data Sets

Introduction to CICS Explorer

1 hour

Manipulating CICS Explorer Data

1 hour

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About You

Background Numbers

Programmers 4

Operators 1

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Objectives

• Questions from the Course So Far

• Who Supports CICS?

• Current and Future CICS Priorities and Directions

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Clarification of Previous Material

• General comments received

• Technical queries on CICS

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Who Supports CICS?

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Application Programmers

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Systems Programmers

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CICS Priority 1: Keep CICS Systems Running

Goal: Zero Unscheduled CICS outage.

Challenges: Batch processing, increased CICS usage, application abends.

Past Projects: Workload Sharing, Application Reliability, Batch EXCI.

Current Projects: CICS performance tuning, VSAM LSR.

Future Projects: Temporary Storage Sharing, CICS Upgrade

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CICS Priority 2: Get the Most From CICS

Goal: Open up CICS applications and data.

Challenges: Security, connectivity, control.

Past Projects: CICS Sockets, EXCI, CICS TG, Websphere MQ

Current Projects: Websphere MQ

Future Projects: CICS Web Services, SOAP.

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Summary

• Who Supports CICS?

• The Application Programmers and Systems Programmers

• CICS Priorities and Projects

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Questions

CICS TS - Introduction

1 hour

1 hour

1 hour

PowerPoint Our CICS Applications and

Data

PowerPoint Our CICS Systems

WebinarUnderstanding CICS and Your

Role

= Datatrain Course Modules

CICS TS and Transaction Processing Concepts

CICS Structure and Intercommunication

CICS Data Sets

Introduction to CICS Explorer

1 hour

Manipulating CICS Explorer Data

1 hour

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