CICS Application Programming Fundamentals (COBOL)
This is a beginner-level introduction to CICS application programming using COBOL for developers familiar with COBOL but not with CICS. This course will teach you the fundamentals of CICS application design and development using the COBOL language.
What you'll learn
CICS has been one of IBM's flagship products for mainframe environments for the past 50 years. It is still used by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide. CICS plays a role both in legacy systems and in application modernization, and demand for CICS skills is on the rise. In this course, CICS Application Programming Fundamentals (COBOL), you’ll learn to design, code, run, and test CICS application programs. First, you'll discover the process of building up a complete CRUD application. Next, you'll explore the various skills for creating BMS maps. Finally, you'll delve into writing CICS applications in COBOL, working with VSAM KSDS data sets, and designing pseudo-conversational transactions. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of CICS COBOL application development needed to build and support such applications.
Table of contents
- Signon Program 1m
- Send Receive Terminal Data 3m
- Pseudoconversational 10m
- Convert ESONP to Pseudoconversational 2m
- Refactoring for Readability 2m
- Handling AID Keys 5m
- Handling CICS Errors 8m
- Registered Users File 7m
- Adding Test Users 2m
- Verifying User Credentials 8m
- Monitoring User Activity 3m
- Create Sign-on Rules File 8m
- Temp Storage Queues 6m
- Channels and Containers 2m
- Writing the Activity Monitor - Part 1 6m
- Writing the Activity Monitor - Part 2 4m
- Writing the Activity Monitor - Part 3 7m
- Writing the Activity Monitor - Part 4 6m
- Writing the Activity Monitor - Part 5 2m
- Updating The Sign-on Program 8m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Overview 2m
- Module Roadmap 1m
- Design Employee Master File 5m
- Create Employee Master File 2m
- Mapset for Employee List 5m
- Employee List Program Simple List 13m
- CICS AppProg M10C7 Customize The Symbolic Map 8m
- Browsing Backward 4m
- Selecting and Filtering Records 2m
- Creating a Map to Enter Filters 3m
- Selection by Employee Id - Part 1 7m
- Selection by Employee Id - Part 2 5m
- Defining an Alternate Index 5m
- Listing Employees by Primary Name 6m
- Alternate Indices with Non-unique Keys 2m
- Displaying Active Filters on the List Screen 1m
- Tying in the Activity Monitor 2m
- The CEDF Transaction 10m
- Module Summary 1m
- Module Overview 2m
- Enhancing the Registered Users File 4m
- BMS Map for Employee Record Display 4m
- The View Employee Details Program 6m
- Selecting a Record on the List Screen 9m
- Controlling Access by User Role 4m
- Refactoring 4m
- Access by Standard Users 2m
- Access by Managers 4m
- Applying Filters 8m
- Refactoring 1m
- Reading through the Alternate Index 4m
- Browsing Forward and Backward 8m
- Extracting Common Code 7m
- Module Summary 2m
About the author
Dave Nicolette started his career in IT in 1977 as an application programmer. Since then, he has worked on a variety of systems including IBM mainframe and midrange systems, DEC, Tandem, Wang, Honeywell, Unisys and Stratus, and has developed and supported applications in Assembly, Cobol, PL/I, VisualBasic, C/C++, Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, F#, and others using Unix, Linux, Windows, zOS, NonStop, and other OSes. Currently he works as a technical coach for software development/delivery teams, emphas... more