CICS Systems Administration

Course: CSA

Duration: 5 Days

Level: II

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.

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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

Start, run, and shut down a CICS system
Perform CICS administration duties
Understand resource naming conventions
Use CEDA,CEDB, AND CEDC to manage CICS resources on-line
Maintain Macro tables
Understand performance considerations

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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Related Courses

Code	Course Title	Duration	Level
CC1	CICS/TS Command Level (CC1)	4 Days	I	Details
CCWE	CICS Web Enablement (CCWE)	3 Days	I	Details
IC	CICS Fundamentals	3 Days	I	Details
CDE	CICS/TS Internal Structure & Debug Systems	3 Days	III	Details

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