CICS for Operators (2 days)

Designed for: Staff who will be operating a CICS system

Primary Objective: To monitor and control CICS resources

CICS Overview
Introduction to CICS structure and facilities;  domains, DSAs, management modules and tables; CICS datasets; CICS security;  recovery and restart;  methods of controlling CICS; common CICS terminology; how CICS handles a task, queues; use of MRO: AOR, TOR, DOR, function shipping; use of ISC; XCF (Cross Coupling Facility); CICS and DB2.

Operating CICS
Master terminal operator function;  starting CICS: cold, warm, emergency starts; closing down CICS; logging and journalling; how a user signs on and off;  Master Terminal transactions.

Using CEMT
Facilities;  CICS system defaults; PF key functions; CEMT format and parameters;  controlling tasks, programs, and datasets; terminals and lines; enabling and disabling transactions.

Further transactions and uses
Sending messages; issuing CICS commands from the console; deallocating and allocating datasets; handling active and suspended tasks; Dump Utility Program, controlling dump files, printing dump file contents, etc.; Trace Utility Program; in-doubt resource resolution, DFH$IWUP; further supplied transactions e.g. CECI, CECS, CEBR, CMAC; interpreting termination statistics; problem handling and solving.

OS/390, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, REXX

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